Amelia Earhart's Plane In Sonar Image?

Above, Amelia Earhart and her Lockheed Electra.

One of the great mysteries of the first half of the 20th Century is what happened to famed aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan.

Sonar images near Howland Island in the South Pacific may have located her airplane.

According to CNN:

CNN — One of the greatest enduring mysteries is the fate of beloved pilot Amelia Earhart.

Nearly 87 years after the famed aviator and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to fly around the world, underwater archaeologists and other marine experts are still trying to unravel what happened.

The US government maintains that the aviation pioneer and Noonan crashed into the ocean after running out of fuel, but some believe the duo became castaways on an island or that Earhart was a spy whom the Japanese captured.

The record-breaking Earhart disappeared at the top of her game, becoming a trailblazing icon for women pilots.

And a recent find may add a new chapter to Earhart’s unfinished story.

Ocean secrets

A research team believes it has found Earhart’s twin-engine plane deep beneath the waves.

Ocean exploration company Deep Sea Vision sent an expedition to the Pacific Ocean between September and December. While using sonar imaging to map the seafloor with sound waves, a small aircraft-shaped anomaly appeared more than 16,000 feet (4,877 meters) down.

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"Earhart" Photo Published 2 Years Before Disappearance

Above, the photo allegedly of Noonan and Earhart.

It appears that the photo above may not have been of aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan after all.

A Japanese blogger found a photo book that published the photo in 1935, two years before Earhart's disappearance.

According to NPR.org:

A Japanese military history buff has found library records showing a photo supposedly depicting Amelia Earhart survived a crash landing in 1937 was actually published two years before the famous aviator vanished. 

The photograph in question was featured in a History Channel special and received widespread media attention.

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Amelia Earhart Mystery Solved?

It appears that the 80-year-old mystery of what happened to famed aviator Amelia Earhart may have been solved.

A photograph has been discovered in the National Archives that purportedly is of Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan in the Marshall Islands in 1937.

Here's the photograph:

Above, Fred Noonan may be the man at the far left and Amelia Earhart may be the person sitting with back to the camera.

According to The Telegraph:

A newly discovered photograph proves that Amelia Earhart did not die in a plane crash but was captured by the Japanese, experts have claimed 80 years after her disappearance. 

The photograph was found in a former “top secret” file at the US National Archives and is believed to have been taken in 1937 - the same year Earhart disappeared during her round-the-world flight attempt. 

It had been generally accepted that Earhart, and her navigator Fred Noonan, died on July 2, 1937, when their plane crashed close to Howland Island in the central Pacific Ocean, amid poor visibility and low fuel levels.

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