It seems every year that goes by brings a new discovery on the possible finding of Amelia Earhart's plane.
Now the stuff of legend, the aviator's plane has been the sort of aviation holy grail that every treasure hunter wants to find.
This new discovery is in the same area that has now been established as the possible crash site of the last flight of Amelia Earhart.
A sonar scan revealed an anomaly on the ocean floor that could be construed as being a plane wing or part of the plane that crashed in the pacific atoll. Although Earhart is believed to have survived and then captured by Japanese and killed, finding the wreckage could answer that part of the mystery as to why the plane crashed.
The Lockheed Electra in which Earhart was flying, had a wing span that closely matches the 22 foot object detected by the sonar scan.
The scan was done near Nikumaroro Island, in the Pacific Ocean, and is at about 600 feet depth.
Source: CNN news 5.31.13
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