Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesHow did Deep Sea Vision detect the object that could be Earhart's plane?
But it wasn't until the team reviewed sonar data in December that they saw the fuzzy yellow outline of what resembles a plane.
“In the end, we came out with an image of a target that we believe very strongly is Amelia’s aircraft," Romeo told The Associated Press.
But he said that Romeo’s team must provide “a forensic level of documentation” to prove it’s Earhart’s Lockheed.
He would have expected to see straight wings and not swept wings, like the new sonar suggests, as well as engines.
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