Image believed to show Amelia Earhart's plane was rock formation, not crash site, company says
The company behind a search for pilot Amelia Earhart's possible crash site in the Pacific said a sonar image believed to resemble her plane turned out to be the sea floor's normal shapes.
The company behind a search for pilot Amelia Earhart's possible crash site in the Pacific said a sonar image believed to resemble her plane turned out to be the sea floor's normal shapes.
Marine robotics firm Deep Sea Vision said earlier this month on its social media accounts that imagery from an underwater drone deployed during the expedition turned out to show a "natural rock formation."
"After 11 months the waiting has finally ended and unfortunately our target was not Amelia's Electra 10E," it said in the Nov. 6 post, referring to her twin engine Lockheed 10-E Electra.
Tony Romeo, CEO of the Charleston, South Carolina-based company, said by email he did not want to speak further about the past expedition.
The sonar image of what appeared to be a cross-shaped object not unlike an aircraft sparked excitement when the company announced in January that Earhart’s plane was “believed to be found.”
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