In 2009, the Amelia Earhart biopic, with Hilary Swank, Amelia, ends with her aircraft disappearing into the clouds, which is effectively the last official news we have of the legendary explorer before she disappeared and was never found again. Earhart’s plane disappeared over the Pacific in 1937 as she attempted to become the first woman to fly around the world.

Since then, the mystery of what happened, or even more so, where the aviator’s remains were, has filled the imagination of many. And 87 years later it returns to the news with a pilot and former US Air Force intelligence officer claiming to have located the plane kilometers from Hawaii, on an uninhabited coral island. If I’m right, it will be an emotional moment of sadness and peace for an innovative woman like Amelia Earhart.

According to Tony Romeo, sonar images captured images that he claims are of the wreckage of the plane at the bottom of the Pacific just a few kilometers from what would be the final destination of her trip in that section.

Romeo, one of several people committed to the search, is looking for clearer images and is not the first to try to solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart‘s disappearance. There are theories that she landed in a region of the Pacific where she became a prisoner of the Japanese who considered her an American spy and died in captivity.

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The most popular in recent times, especially after a forensic analysis carried out in 2018 reinforced the suspicion, is that she fell on the remote island of Nikumaroro, in the Pacific, where she would have died without help, food, or water. Bones located on the island just three years after her disappearance were initially considered male, but new analysis suggested the measurements were female and similar to the missing explorer. Therefore, there is no news of what happened to her traveling partner, Fred Noonan, who also disappeared with her in 1937. Still, in 2018, it was also reported that the wreckage of Earhart’s plane had been located on another island in the South Pacific, but nothing materialized.

Tony Romeo’s images were taken around 160 kilometers from Howland Island, which confirms the route it is imagined to have taken. Amelia Earhart, who was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic and across the US, was declared legally dead on January 5, 1939, two years after her disappearance.

More attempts at a better image are essential to confirm whether it is indeed part of the wreckage, but the distinct shape of the fuselage, tail, and wings is making everyone confident that the puzzle will be solved. The plane is in a very deep area and it is not known whether it is possible to rescue it or even explore it.

I hope it’s true!

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