Explorer Believes He's Solved The 87 Year Old Mystery Of The Location Of Amelia Earhart's Missing Plane

87 years after Amelia Earhart went missing attempting to be the first female pilot to travel around the world, a random guy willing to spend $11 million dollars and 8 months in the middle of the Pacific ocean may have found Earhart's plane on the bottom of the ocean floor by using sonar technology. 

What happened to Amelia Earhart has been one of the biggest unsolved mysteries of modern times. In 1937, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, took off from Papua New Guinea and were supposed to travel 2,500 miles to a tiny speck in the middle of the Pacific called Howland Island where they would refuel. The two never reached their destination, the plane and bodies were never found, so eventually 2 years after they disappeared Earhart and Noonan were pronounced dead. 

There are countless theories trying to pin down exactly what happened, theories as simple as Earhart getting lost and running out of fuel in the middle of the pacific, to getting captured by Japanese soldiers, all the way to the most extreme and gruesome theory of her being picked apart and eaten alive by giant coconut crabs. I lean towards the latter theory. Who knows what is on those remote islands in the middle of the Pacific? 

I hate that we've potentially located the plane. The mystery of not knowing what happened is way more exciting than the truth that Earhart simply got lost and crashed. I liked to think Earhart change course and decided to pull a 2pac esque move of faking her death and living peacefully on a tropical island in the middle of nowhere. Instead we are about to get the facts, which are much more lame than what our imagination can create. 

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