Mystery solved? Explorer thinks he found Amelia Earhart's lost plane
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- The disappearance of Amelia Earhart's plane over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 is one of the world's enduring mysteries. Now, a pilot and explorer says he believes he's found the plane halfway between Hawaii and Australia. NBC News’ Emilie Ikeda reports.
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#AmeliaEarhart #Plane #Mystery
Even if this isn't her lost plane, it shows how her story still fascinates people today!
It's like Taylor Swift disappearing today. She was/is a big deal. Especially in her time when they had little to do but look up for entertainment. Yall don't understand the world before computers.
@@aftersexhighfivesnot even close
@@aftersexhighfivesdon’t ever compare that legend to that clown
@@aftersexhighfivesI'm willing to bet you're an annoying swifty
Not even close buddy.
People can not fathom how impossible this would be. If this ends up being it , it would be possibly the most insane find in history.
I agree, even if you narrow down a potential crash location it would be a monumental achievement given the depth & size of the ocean as well as the time that passed
It was almost inevitable once we scanned the ocean floor in enough detail though, right? And especially with someone tracking her flight path specifically...
Next, find the two pilots that vanished off of the US coast from a military blimp that ended up crashing manless back into California.
Would literally be finding the needle in the hay stack
Many folks have did the math and calculations based on radio signals, weather patterns, and fuel consumption to get a pretty good idea of the area she likely crashed in.
Amelia was not alone, she had a navigator on board. It would be incredible if they find them.
their bodies would have long since disintegrated, even the bones.
They will only be identified by shoes at that depth nothing else would survive.
@@Noxious518They could be floating on a raft somewhere
@@bullock4211doubtful after all this time with all the years of storms and some people believe she might have made it to an island, some believe she was captured too. I would love to know the truth about this.
😅@@bullock4211
Should round up a few billionaires and send them down there to check it out.
New need to build a new sub made from plastic for them!
maybe some Washington politicians could seek that fame...
Kinda makes you wonder. Guys like Bezos or Musk could use that as advertising and a tax write off. They would nt even feel the money gone it would cost to put "eyes" on the plane.
I see what you did there 😂
So you don't like people with money. Got it
Let’s build a homemade sub out of Home Depot parts and a propane tank and go see for ourselves. 🤦
Once you go under you'll stay under.
No tanks. You go alone.
I believe that's a brilliant idea mate.Let's do it.
lol
Have Boeing install the door
It will be interesting to see if the cameras get images of definitive identification. Digital electronics continue to amaze.
I am sure they will get an underwater ROV down there to look. Personally it would not surprise me if the aircraft is partly intact. There has been underwater dives by RV Petrol to sunken WW2 Warships and on a few occasions they found on the aircraft carrier wrecks some of the planes still somewhat intact with the lettering and decal still in good condition to be spelled out.
Turns out she was using Apple Maps
i think he has a tip from someone who can't give out that kind of find
space Force knows things they can't tell you
@@Ellie5621 I'm sure him bringing it to the public now has more chances of getting funding from private individuals.
this might get him some funding and support
Let’s use a Dreamcast controller
Better yet, a cheap knockoff of one.
Better yet use hand motion as a control
@@derekj4590 I'm using motion controls!
I heard she was on her period when she left and got in an argument with the instrumentation advisor because he was trying to delay her departure cause he wanted to do additional calibrating.
NES
16,000 feet that's staggering depth. No chance of recovery at that depth but hopefully the unmanned submersible can get clear enough images to determine if it is truly her plane
I wouldn’t say no chance of recovery but 16,000 ft is about the limit of recovery, the deepest recovered black box and also pieces of the Russian submarine K-129 were recovered at around 16,000 ft
There's a chance. Trying to wrap cables around the Titanic vs a 2,500 lb airplane are two very different things.
@@enthused7591 It would be one of the greatest engineering feats in the history of the world if they can get a submersible to wrap cables around the aircraft without destroying it and bring it to the surface intact. I hope i'm wrong but i just don't see how that can possibly be done at that depth.
Wonder what went wrong and caused them to crash 3 miles down in the deep 😮
@@robertredmon5409 they'd use floatation devices
It would definitely be an interesting find….however, there are a lot of WW2 aircraft down in the depths. It will have to be a rock solid confirmation….otherwise, it will just be more speculation.
Agreed and amazingly such aircraft that have been found you can still see plenty of detail. Case in point RV Petrol’s wreck dives to sunken WW2 Warships with some dives done on sunken Aircraft Carriers.
Thats why they are going down again with cameras that can withstand the pressure of those depths
Good point about the WW2 aircrafts. I hadn't thought of that
He said there wasn’t any other wrecks in the area
WWII wasn't close to this site. I doubt there's many other planes around there.
Rest in peace Amelia Earhart
Just want to say… that mans beard is majestic.
Lol as a 32 year old guy who's just now decided to attempt to grow and maintain a beard, I appreciate this comment and that man's beard as well. 🧔
When passersby start putting dollars in your coffee cup, it's time for a shave.
He trying to get attention with the beard, that's why I don't trust him
It is... isnt it!
I thought it was fake!
That's either a plane, or the world's biggest arrow
Lol
Biggest hoax
That is a more logical search than the others that have been done
Ive followed her story for decades & always found her interesting. This would be so exciting if her plane has been found but realistically wwii had many planes all over the place that crashed without anyone knowing but wouldnt it be thrilling to have one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century solved!❤
An interesting note is that the closest island, Baker, was a base for B24s during WW2 and they could be easily mistaken for eachother in that low resolution image.
I knowwwwww, I’ve been following her story and her progress everyday almost! I’m so impressed! Like that time in the 90’s when she did that thing. Or the early 2010’s when she did that other thing. Gosh her story is so inspiring! I hope to meet her someday!
I am tempted to report you to the authority for omission of apostrophe.
No WWII battles happened in that area though, so any other wrecks would have been accidents or dumps.
“If something inspires you, go do it.” Beautifully put!
Step 1). Acquire 40m bucks.
@macemaster it was the founder of the Deep Sea searching company... way to listen to the video!
Step2) curb your confidence
Was thrown off a bus for that.
Here we go again!
Relax, they're not stupid, they're using a remotely operated vehicle. No man on deck.
It's called an AUV.
We have one currently in the northern Bahamas.
Life goes on while you do...
Whatever.
haha
@@frostech3149I hope all men stay on deck
Hope it's not a stupid hoax like that history Channel docucrap thing they aired 10 years ago.
This is honestly epic. I hope it is Amelia’s plane. This would be amazing. God speed
I can't believe they found Dale Earnhardt's plane.
They probly did.
Ya. Off turn four at Daytona.
What kinda plane did Dale earn?
@@enthused7591 the one they scanned at the bottom of the sea.
What???? They found his plane?????
Small town Kansas girl. What a remarkable story.
16000 ft down! Wow! Fascinating find worth investigating. RIP Amelia. We are still thinking of you and looking for you. 💐
That picture is about as good as those alien space ship pictures.
Have you never seen a sonar image before?
Perhaps you should fund a dive on the site
It might look like a smudge on a screen to someone who doesnt know what they are talking about but if you are an actual intelligent intellect that has laid eyes on a sonar image before you would clearly be able to tell that structure resembles an aircraft almost perfectly...
Yeah, you are speaking to one@@johnnichol9412
You do realize that is a sonar image and not a photograph, right?
Stayed tuned!
OMG.....this would be so incredible!
Captain Janeway and the Starship Voyager already discovered Amelia's plane, Amelia and her navigator on a faraway planet.
Seen that episode. Great idea i thought
I was thinking of that episode too while watching this. Fantastic
It was buzzing around out there with the Jupiter 2.
It would be amazing to find her plane. It seems like the kind of thing that my kid would learn about in a Disney movie made about the expedition, and he'll say something like "did you ever hear of this lady?" And I'll sound like an old man when I say, "no crap I knew who she was everyone in the world knew who she was, THE WOMAN JUST VANISHED!"
If Disney makes it, she'll be black and homosexual...
I agree😊
It be crazy if they finally solve her mystery. And her story would be almost complete.
May god rest her soul. She isn’t forgotten. And never shall be. 🙏🏻✝️🕊️
R.I.P Amelia 🙏🏽
Cool looking forward to seeing more about this.
It could be anything.
I’m convinced- looking forward to seeing results from the next expedition
Fred Noonan. His life means less than a turn signal on a BMW.
Her plane did not have swept back wings as shown in that image; however, they could well have been damaged and bent backwards at their connection with the fuselage. And operating an ROV would be the best way to find out for sure.
Now let's send this guy and his crew to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Maybe they can solve that mystery once and for all as well.
Yeah let's hope it's not like in the next century they find it
@@hallnall1667 might b closer to send searchers down under- Australia, supposedly that direction was last known trajectory?
@@hallnall1667 still u might think the odds of finding a jumbo jet would b better than a smaller plane
Its definitely a plane about the same size as hers! I think they finally found it!
I doubt it could have stayed that intact upon crashing, and still be that shape this far in the future!
@AR-ed3xw crashing doesn't necessarily mean fell apart... The Titanic and USS Arizona largely remain "intact."
@AR-ed3xw it could have been a water landing which if done right the plane would stay intact. As for lasting over 80 years on the ocean floor, it was made of aluminium so is not as susceptible to corrosion. Many WW2 Aircraft made of aluminium are found in a remarkable state of preservation
@Miakel that's odd, ever worked with corroded aluminum? It can happen very quick, must be the oxygen
Nope you seen swamp gas.
I found her plane once back in the day but I put it back and didn’t really want to tell anyone. So trust me when I say, that’s not it
😂😂😂😂😂
@@TLOH7if you don’t get it what’s the point of explaining any further? You most likely won’t understand that explanation either
@@amasterofbation All I know is that you’re NUTS. Keep having fun inside your head.
Thank you for saving them the money and time, you're a true saint 🙂
Approach this dive carefully Romeo. Hoping your find is real and historical.
Not her ! Her Electra didn't have swept back wings!
Planes don’t crash into the ocean and stay intact, lol, and most certainly not after nearly a century in the ocean! Have people really become this naive?
Correct... But you would expect a lot of damage... Even from a fairly good water landing. You did note the tail appears to be EXACTLY like an Electra.
The other possibility is a P-38. But as pointed out there are no military records of any such crash in the area. It could also be a different Electra!
They were in common use at some point.
@@dennisg4053 do you really think the plane that was primarily made from aluminum would be so well preserved after nearly a century in the ocean? Look at what has happened to the titanic and aluminum corrodes faster than steel does at deep ocean depths.
@@newfie-dean5803 Doesn’t it depend on how they crash and how fast they are going on impact? I have seen plenty of wrecks that apparently belly landed as their wings were still attached. I recall not too long ago a commercial airline crash landing in a river basically intact.
This is fantastic.
The two mysteries I really want solved in my lifetime is seeing Amelia Earharts plane be found and hoping one day someone identifies who DB Cooper actually was. Those two cases will forever fascinate me. I really hope this is her plane.
Part of me wants to know who DB cooper was the other wants him to get away with it
@@therideneverends1697 DB Cooper already got away with his stunt. Finding him just proves the details.
I would just be happy finding my nail clippers
Can’t believe she was able to fly this while blind and deaf. Truly fascinating!
Looking forward to seeing the follow up!
...that will never come.
That image is actually clearer than some CCTV i've seen...
I hope she still alive.
She was born in the 1800s I doubt it
She was born in 1899. She would be 124 today. If she somehow survived 124 years, depending on where she landed, she would have to survive the Pacific Ocean and make it to an island which is basically Lord of the Flies, and survive there for 91 years.
she would be 126 if she still alive so dont get you hopes up. no mater what.
@@TheLordOfNothing Wikipedia says July 24, 1897.
Thank you!
I wonder if someone is gonna start doing sub tours of the wreck
Great quote at the end there. “If something inspires you go do it.” I like it.
There a lot of stories a out there you don't know what to believe
It's not that hard. She ran out of gas. That's her plane.
I hope that is her plane so this mystery can be solved and closed. Rest in peace Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan.
Again? Didn't someone find it years ago?
no big deal just means she adds 'submariner' to her achievements
Why would you expect to find it in one piece and in full profile?
You can land a plane fairly level to the ground even when out of fuel.
I would think if it survived that, it would eventually go nose down to the bottom, and then flatten out.
You never know.
If it came in on the water, then filled with water and sank, why wouldn't it be in one piece?
Being a woman, married to a rich guy and being a mediocre pilot = being a legend.
Thousands of WWII aircraft all over the Pacific bottom, and that blurry sonar pic is Earharts? Perhaps a little more evidence is indicated?
The thing is, we kept tabs on those aircraft, if it's out that far then it would had to have been downed in a fight which we have record of, WW2 wasn't THAT chaotic
a few zero's scattered out there too
@@ApotheNZ So WWII aircraft never crashed other than if they were shot down? The crew of the Lady Be Good, the Greenland P38s, all the Zeros who had nowhere to land when their carriers were sunk at Midway, and for a modern example, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 among thousands of others might argue that point with you. Also, how many damged aircraft crashed long after the planes that shot at them were far away? That plane sitting at 60,000 feet down could be a japanese recon plane fighter that lost its way. or You might recognize the fact that aircraft are heavier than air, and any multitude of reasons can suddenly make them drop from the sky like bird poop. I think your dismissal of my remark is way overly simplistic.
@@Tom-ut6ky this region has no recorded major battles, a small aircraft is not going to make it this far from their group, they would still be listed, WW2 is the most catalogued War in history, every single thing that happened was recorded in detail by one side or the other, as for MH370, that is a Long range aircraft, of significant size, not matching the size of this (theorized) aircraft (it may just be a coincidentally plane shaped rock formation or something of that nature), the Battle of Midway happened THOUSANDS of miles from this location, how would a single seater aircraft travel that far? But I'm certainly not arguing that this is DEFINITELY Amelia Earharts plane, i'm simply stating the fact that there are far fewer unaccounted for wrecks in the pacific than one might think, for every Japanese/American carrier and battleship that was lost we have dozens of people who have spent their lives documenting everything about those ships and the aircraft that went with them, if we have no record of battles taking place in the area, then the likelihood of this being Earharts craft rises.
@@Tom-ut6kyI think you are under estimating how big the ocean really is.. all of those things are very far apart and not as popular as you think it is. The chances of even finding most of these things are so freaking slim that you have more of a chance of being struck by lightning 1000 times over…
My mom is almost 50 and these things in her era has always fascinated her lets hope mom 😲❤️✌️🙏
Hope they find and rescue her
🤣🤣🤣
Pray for Amelia. Please come home.
Wasn’t the plane/skeleton found on an island beach a few years ago?
Iirc there was a very small piece of plane and some bones, but the bones were lost before they could be identified
@@fate3071that's a guy who makes things fit his theory but has no real physical evidence, the metal is unidentifiable and finds could be from previous inhabitants. But it raises lots of money
@@SaltimusMaximus
Head of TIGAR has been making a living on this hunt for decades. Much in the way speculation and many journeys. Never anything like definitive proof.
Looking forward to the follow-up in the future! Were/have they been found after 87 years? Time will tell. 🙏🤞🙏
All the Oceangate comments are old. Grow up kids.
Well ain't this just amazing! Hopefully this mystery will be solved soon 🙏💝
It was solved years ago. Dont you read?
@@caroltenge5147 I wouldn't say solved. More like contesting theories.
Saludos cordiales from medellin city
Doubtful. The Lockheed Electra 10e's wings don't slant back like that. That image would be more similar to a jet airplane. Also, with how those wings are positioned so close to the front of the aircraft, if it is an aircraft, the front end is missing.
The nose was likely altered on impact
@@patrick7381 Its also a blurry sonar image.
Was my thought as well. Wings close to nose and slanted back may be a lost fighter jet.
@@geradkavanagh8240 Agreed! I think a lot of the old fighter jets had that shape. Especially the early open-nosed ones used during the Korean War like the F-86 Sabre
Trying to sound smart but it’s a blurry sonar photo of a very old wreck
She’s probably low on air down there.
Now this is the kind of news that I'm interested in hearing! More of this and maybe I could begin to watch the news more often
Call up James Cameron! (The titanic director?) 😂
Not a terrible idea - he's actually a bona fide expert when it comes to deep sea exploration.
@@dmochat Exactly! And he’d make a great movie about it. 🤟💞
@@dmochatyou want Bob Ballard
I don’t think you needed to specify that he’s the Titanic director. I feel like most people would have understood if you had just said- Call up James Cameron
My humble opinion, lol
@@GreenMountainVelvet It was more a question if I remembered his first name correctly. I wasn’t 100% sure, but sure enough didn’t want to switch apps to google it. Thanks for letting me know I was correct! 🤟💞
It was a Weather Balloon....
Oceangate vibes
Exactly.
They can just call up several billionaires to go check it out
Oh my God. i hope they get better look to see if it really is her plane. If so, many will want to know what happened!
I would be surprised this is the plane with 90 years of sea growth, decomposition of the fuselage and the type of body covering, this should look like a giant clump of sea weed or a boulder. I want to see the serial numbers on the engine block
Seaweed at 16000 feet? You dumb as rocks
You’d be surprised; go look at some of the footage from Paul Allen’s expeditions out to the pacific where they look at carrier fighters on the bottom where you can still see the pain on the planes and the numbers; can’t wait to see if this is it
in extremely cold and pitch black conditions there is less sea weed. A la the Titanic wreckage when this is supposedly much deeper.
You’ve hears of the titanic, yes? Also it doesn’t look like anything, it’s a blurry image with just a shape and one color.
Wow!
Interesting!
This is gonna be one of the top 5 wreck finds in the last 50 years if it's really her plane.
That's gonna be as big as Titanic, the HMS Victory, the one that sank in a storm, not one of the others, the USS Hornet, and the USS Samuel B Roberts whose the deepest shipwreck found so far.
USS Indianapolis also
For mysterious lost ships? Come on the finding of the Erebus and the Terror in the Canadian north tops all but maybe the Titanic.
I suspect it’s a ww2 aircraft. Another organization (TIGRE) has a sound theory that she and her co-Pilot landed on the beaches at Gardner Island and were stranded and died there. This theory is based on lots of circumstantial evidence. The waves eventually pushed the plane into the ocean. An underwater search was performed several years ago but came up negative. Not sure if there are plans to do additional searches.
TIGHAR's evidence was indeed very tantalizing. They did a lot of serious work on the project.
The coconut crab island.What a horrific fate.
the only other plane from this era with the same relative shape is the b-24 liberator. There are no missing downed b-24's. They have all been found and accounted for. The Lockheed Electra she was flying even at the time was not very common at all.
@@Missunderstood103 it's funny because coconut crab are generally afraid of humans or something bigger than them in particular
One can only hope ❤
I hope before I die finally the plane will be recovered
These researchers literally humbled themselves and ya'll still think it's 100% true immediately. lol
Yeah Thats such a blurry indistinct picture that it could very well just be a rock formation or something,
people see shapes in clouds doesent mean what they see is what it is
That's some deep and historical type story.
Definitely could be it, but I’d imagine there’s a lot of lost aircraft in the pacific due to the war as well.
@@newfie-dean5803 are you familiar with the miracle on the Hudson? Now imagine that but in the open ocean with no one to save them. Did you think before typing that?
the pressure would destroy it by the time it reached the bottom. Its funny how people think it would stay 1 piece at such a depth. Education is gone out the window
@@windshearahead7012 there’s no pressure if the airplane isn’t pressurized. Do you think every piece of metal gets ripped to pieces the once it’s underwater? If wooden sailing ships from 200+ years ago can still located at the bottom of the ocean don’t you think a plane that sank in the 1930s should be okay, right?
She's in the Delta Quadrant. I saw it in a documentary called "The 37s".
And she chose to stay. At least she got to see the starship Voyager. 😉
Could also be a war plane or any other.
For anyone thinking that finding her plane will lead to finding her remains, think again, at that depth humans would be crushed without a submersible.
The plane has swept wimgs
Last year it was proven that even with a submersible you can be crushed on the way down
@@Scott-got-caughtyea it was
Plane still might have some clues
Oh God... Seems like every few years somebody claims they found her plane... Until someone actually pulls it from the ocean as proof, then I simply don't want to hear about it...🙄
I pray it's her. Her family deserves to know as well as everyone else.
You mean, if it is not she, you are praying that it will become she?
Because if it already is she, then what use were it to pray for it to be she?
The idea of praying for something that already IS or ISN"T doesn't make sense to me.
You have wasted your energy. Pray for something that isn't already what it is.
@@MoivinSulunkerThis is actually an interesting point. Because God, by definition, is independent of time, praying for a past event when the details are unknown to you makes just as much sense as praying for future events, because, again, for God, those future events already are.
That is beyond my understanding, for there is some kind of alignment that happens in the process of certain kinds of praying.
@@jaypaint4855
Her family has been dead decades. No ones alive that actually knew her. She’s just history to related persons now.
@@MoivinSulunker but then, it doesn't make sense to pray for anything unless it's proved there is something on the other end that can "hear" it and do something about it. which is just superstitious nonsense.
And time goes by.
Eighty seven years
Since youth, I’ve been fascinated by this story. I would love for her plane to be found. And her remains amongst the wreckage would really bring this to a “close.”
She could still be alive
@@rocsti5402 if she’s 126 years old. That would definitely make her record-setting beyond just flying.
Physical remains are extremely unlikely.
Not too sure on how to use those tricky little speechmarks, are you?
@@roberthudson1959 yes, you’re correct.
I've been fascinated by her story since i was a kid! Exciting times!!!
Let her rest in peace if she's there put flowers and walk away
No, they need to bring the plane to surface in order to study and figure out what happened. THE WORLD NEEDS ANSWERS 🙄
And make a museum display out of the whole thing! Charge admissions! This could be big! Or just scrap it all for pre atomic metal
The wings look swept back, like an early model MiG. Probably a distortion of the SONAR signal. Lots of WWII Japanese and allied aircraft on the seabed in the western Pacific too.
That's deep
16,000 feet below the surface is further than oceangate’s expedition, this would be one costly and very dangerous trip down if it’s manned. Best route would be to send a controller robot down there to verify which is also costly in on its own. I’m surprised we don’t have the tech to explore and pull out what we have available on earth yet have helicopters on mars currently.
..."as you can see clearly in the image" lol
Best quote ! My thoughts exactly. If you had a clear picture you also had some reason not to show it ?
This is not a picture it's sonar image big difference
So, the mystery continues and the thumbnail is misleading. Amelia, is still missing ! 🙄
What about the multiple witness accounts of the Japanese capturing her (and navigator Fred Noonan) and burning her plane?
It is as if the entire gigantic mass of records, concrete research information, were completely ignored by the public. They insist on looking for Earhart at the bottom of the ocean, and talk about crabs. Many ignore what has been studied, and researched about Amelia in Marshalls since the 1960s
Looks intact,and that means that the plane glided into the water,but even if the pilot survived the impact,it had no chance to reach the island.
agree......and I don't believe anyone has found verified evidence of her remains (or the navigator's), leading to support the theory they possibly survived the ditching but perished at sea. There's only 2 islands in that region = low probability they reached one of them.
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Thoughts and prayers to Amelia. Hopefully we have found her in time and she's ok!
Hopefully, with all that water around she'd be hydrated. Rooting for her!
Idk. It's almost like there was a large-scale war and a few decades of cargo planes that flew those same areas.
0:10 I've never heard her talk before. And the archive footage looks great
I don’t remember her voice either and after that clip, I wish I hadn’t heard it! Not a pleasant sound but more high pitched and rather unpleasant to my ears.
@@thiaco6203the microphones back then made everyone sound insufferable kind of like how a keyboard makes you sound
Somebody’s gotta go down there and take a look and if it is what a piece of history❤
This story captivated my attention when I was child. I remember a Mad Magazine cartoon that showed her with a man at a bar saying “you wanna get lost?”
I wanna believe. Get out there and and bring her story home
Zero degrees 10 minutes north: 17555 west. 50 miles south of Howlland.