Difficulty: Challenger (Level 2)
A famous female pilot, Amelia Earhart, went missing nearly 90 years ago when she tried to fly around the world. No one has been able to find her plane.
But a former US Air Force intelligence officer, Tony Romeo, may have found it at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Romeo believes Earhart’s plane is about halfway between Hawaii and Australia, 5,000 metres below the water.
He said blurry sonar images from a deep-sea drone showed a plane-like shape on the flat, sandy ocean bottom. He thinks Earhart’s plane ran out of fuel and landed on the ocean, then sank to the bottom.
Romeo is planning a mission to find the plane later this year.
“If we can help ... bring Amelia home, we’d be super excited,” he said.
Earhart was from the United States. In 1932, she became the first woman to ever fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
