The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (
TIGHAR),
which has long been investigating the disappearance of legendary
aviator Amelia Earhart, may have discovered the wreckage of her plane:
...
the images show an "anomaly" resting at the depth of about 600 feet in
the waters off Nikumaroro island, some 350 miles southeast of Earhart's
target destination, Howland Island.
According to TIGHAR
researchers, the sonar image shows a strong return from a narrow object
roughly 22 feet long oriented southwest/northeast on the slope near the
base of an underwater cliff. Shadows indicate that the object is higher
on the southwest (downhill side). A lesser return extends northeastward
for about 131 feet.
"What initially got our attention is that
there is no other sonar return like it in the entire body of data
collected," Ric Gillespie, executive director of TIGHAR, told Discovery
News.
"It is truly an anomaly, and when you're looking for
man-made objects against a natural background, anomalies are good," he
added.
Rossella Lorenzi of Discovery News has the post:
Here |
TIGHAR's post
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