Pilot claims Google Earth image may show Amelia Earhart's missing plane on Pacific island reef

A aviator with decades of acquisition flying, thinks helium whitethorn person recovered an representation of Amelia Earhart’s mislaid level via Google Earth.

Justin Myers told Popular Mechanics precocious that helium began looking done outer images of Nikumaroro Island successful the Pacific aft watching a documentary connected her last flight.

"To beryllium wholly honest, my involvement started aft watching a documentary connected the National Geographic Channel. It was the adjacent time erstwhile curiosity astir Nikumaroro Island took maine to looking connected Google Earth."

When archetypal looking astatine images of Nikumaroro, an uninhabited coral atoll successful the Pacific, Myers said helium wasn’t trying to find the Lockheed Electra 10E. "I was conscionable putting myself successful Amelia and [her navigator] Fred’s shoes."

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Amelia Earhart successful the cockpit.  (Getty)

But past helium tried to imagine, arsenic a pilot, "where I would person unit landed a airy duplicate craft successful their position, mislaid and debased connected fuel."

Once helium zoomed into an country that helium thought they mightiness person tried to land, helium noticed a "dark-coloured, perfectly consecutive object" that measured astir 39 feet, the aforesaid arsenic Earhart’s plane.

"I utilized the measuring instrumentality connected Google Earth and to my astonishment and mild small shiver it measured astir 39 ft," helium wrote successful a blog post.

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"It looked man-made," helium told Popular Mechanics. "It looked similar a conception of craft fuselage, that was singular by itself, fto unsocial the anticipation it was Electra 10E NR16020, adjacent though the measurements looked the same."

Pilot Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, with a representation of the Pacific that shows the planned way of their past flight. (Getty)

Earhart was attempting to go the archetypal pistillate to circumnavigate the globe successful 1937 erstwhile she and her navigator mislaid vigor interaction connected July 2 portion attempting to onshore connected Howland Island successful the Pacific, northbound of Nikumaroro.

Neither the brace nor their level person ever been found, sparking astir a period of nonrecreational and amateur investigators to effort to fig retired what happened to them.

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Myers said arsenic helium continued to look astatine the outer imagery, helium thought helium saw much level debris, reasoning helium mightiness person gotten fortunate with his sighting.

"There was an constituent of luck successful spotting that craft debris, arsenic Mother Nature had revealed what had been buried connected the reef for a agelong time," helium said. "I managed to drawback immoderate photos earlier being covered implicit again by passing upwind systems."

Myers wrote successful his blog that helium attempted to interaction respective agencies with his findings, but was mostly ignored.

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The National Transportation Safety Board said the land wasn’t their jurisdiction, truthful helium filed a study with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau but ne'er heard thing back.

Earhart's Lockheed Electra successful March 1937. (Getty)

He besides contacted Purdue University successful California but ne'er heard anything, and contacted an expedition institution successful the state, but said helium hasn’t heard backmost from them successful a while.

Myers is hardly the archetypal idiosyncratic to judge they figured retired the enigma of the aviators’ disappearance.

Last year, Purdue announced its ain expedition to probe the Taraia Object, a ocular anomaly besides connected Nikumaroro that immoderate deliberation could beryllium the plane’s wreckage.

The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery besides believes that Nikumaroro is wherever Earhart went down, based connected a immense assemblage of grounds and a twelve visits to the land betwixt 1989 and 2019, according to Archaeologychannel.org. 

Tony Romeo, a erstwhile Air Force quality serviceman and CEO of Deep Sea Vision, made quality a mates of years agone aft sonar images from a 2023 expedition showed what looked similar a level connected the seafloor adjacent Howland.

Google maps imagery of Nikumaroro Island.  (Google Maps)

But it was soon discovered to conscionable beryllium a earthy stone enactment with plane-like features.

Still, that hasn’t deterred Myers successful his findings.

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"The bottommost enactment is from my interests from a kid successful vintage craft and aerial clang investigation, I tin accidental that is what was erstwhile a 12-metre, 2-engine vintage aircraft," helium told Popular Mechanics, portion adding the caveat that he’s not definite it’s Earhart’s.

And adjacent if it's not the famed pilot’s plane, "then it’s the reply to different enigma that has ne'er been answered. This uncovering could reply immoderate questions to idiosyncratic who disappeared galore years ago."