President Donald Trump is ordering his administration to declassify all government records about Amelia Earhart and her famous disappearance almost 90 years ago.
The pioneering aviator was attempting to become the first women to fly around the world, when she and and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished in the South Pacific with their Lockheed 10-E Electra.
“Amelia made it almost three quarters around the World before she suddenly, and without notice, vanished, never to be seen again,” said Trump in a social media post. “Her disappearance has captivated millions. I am ordering my Administration to declassify and release all Government Records related to Amelia Earhart, her final trip, and everything else about her.”
Many conspiracy theories have come and gone through the decades. Researchers have also thought they found the plane numerous times, but nothing has ever resulted in actually finding them or the plane.
Surveyors think they have found the sunken plane
In the last couple years, deep sea surveyors with Deep Sea Visions think they found the plane. Sonar images from a recent expedition show what appears to be an aircraft, 16,000 feet at the bottom of the Pacific. A mile deeper than the Titanic.
The team followed the “Date Line Theory”, developed by former NASA employee and pilot, Liz Smith. It suggests that Noonan was exhausted after 17 hours of flying, and simply forgot to turn back the date from July 3 to July 2 as they crossed the International Date Line. Such a mistake would have caused a 60-mile navigational error.
The crew focused their search near Howland Island, where Earhart and Noonan were headed to refuel when they disappeared. They searched more than 5,200 square miles, more than all previous searches combined.
”There’s no known other crashes in the area, and certainly not of that era or with that design of the plane’s tail that you see clearly in the image,” says CEO Tony Romeo.
Their next expedition will take a remotely operated submersible with cameras to the site, for a closer look at what the sonar image really is, and confirm if it is in fact the plane.
