A sonar image suspected of showing the remains of the plane of Amelia Earhart, the famed American aviatrix who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, has turned out to be a rock formation. Deep Sea Vision, a South Carolina-based firm, released the blurry image in January captured by an unmanned submersible of what it said may be Earhart's plane on …
An 87-year-old quest to find Amelia Earhart's missing plane looked like it had finally come to an end earlier this year. She's pictured here in 1931 in the cockpit of her gyroplane Earlier this year Deep Sea Vision released sonar images they said may be the remains of the plane that Earhart was flying when she disappeared over the Pacific …
After nearly 100 days at sea, the crew had given up. In 1935, she flew the aircraft alone from Honolulu to Oakland and a few months later by herself from Los Angeles to Mexico City and then to Newark, N.J. “She represents freedom, dreaming big, adventurousness, seeking out the unknown,” said Jane Mendelsohn, who captured the heroine’s complicated mystique in …
