It's one of the world's biggest mysteries -- what happened to Amelia Earhart? Now, an exploration company claims to have found the wreckage of her plane at the bottom of the central Pacific Ocean.
Tony Romeo, a former Air Force officer and founder of Deep Sea Vision, believes he just might have made the discovery of a lifetime.
Romeo has spent more than $11 million searching for Earhart's Lockheed 10-E Electra, which disappeared during her infamous doomed 1937 flight around the globe.
He recently returned from a 100-day voyage with sonar images of what could be Earhart's long-lost plane resting 16,500 feet below the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.
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The blurry sonar images seem to hold a similar shape to Earhart's plane -- but there's no way to know for sure until it's checked out directly, likely using robotic submersibles.
Romeo is planning another voyage later this year.
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