Pilot says he's found Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane
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Tony Romeo funded an $11 million deep-sea expedition and claims his team found Amelia Earhart's plane at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
"What happened to Amelia Earhart?" has remained a question without many answers for decades, but one man's determination to solve the mystery may have just brought the world its biggest clue yet.
Tony Romeo, the CEO of Deep Sea Vision, says he believes he and his deep-sea exploration team have found "what appears to be Earhart's Lockheed 10-E Electra," the still-missing aircraft she and Fred Noonan were flying when they disappeared in July 1937.
The former Air Force intelligence officer and pilot became one of many curious adventurers to try to find the plane's resting place when he sold his commercial real estate investments to fund an $11 million expedition of the Pacific Ocean last year, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The expedition kicked off in September 2023, with the 16-person Deep Sea Vision crew using an unmanned underwater drone to scan more than 5,200 square miles of the sea floor and collect sonar images along the way.
Romeo told "TODAY" his team was reviewing the drone's data in December when they came across what they believed to be a blurry, plane-shaped object, resting some 16,000 feet below the surface, located halfway between Australia and Hawaii and about 100 miles off Howland Island.
