Veteran pilot says he’s ‘definitely’ found Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane on remote Pacific island nearly 90 years after disappearance
Published on Mar 25, 2026 at 5:48 PM (UTC+4)
by Alessandro Renesis
Last updated on Mar 25, 2026 at 5:48 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Emma Matthews
For decades, historians and scientists have tried everything they could to locate the remains of the plane that Amelia Earhart was flying over the Pacific when she disappeared around 90 years ago.
They all failed.
To this date, we have a thousand theories but zero solid evidence.
However, a veteran pilot is now saying he may have cracked the case.
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The gripping story of Amelia Earhart’s mystery
Conspiracy theories are everyone’s favorite commodity in the 21st century, and Amelia Earhart’s mystery is no exception.
But while the conspiracy side is actually quite crowded, the scientific community stays focused on the crash.
On July 2, 1937, aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to circumnavigate the world.
Earhart was declared dead two years later, but her body was never found, and the remains of the aircraft are also considered lost.
Most historians and experts agree that the likely cause of death was a crash into the ocean.
We’re almost certainly never going to find her, but everyone assumes we must be able to at least locate the plane.
Organic matter can decompose, but hard metal doesn’t.
Through the years, there have been several attempts to recover the remains of the plane. But they all failed.
Now, a veteran pilot says he’s ‘definitely’ found her plane.
This pilot believes he’s found the plane debris in a remote atoll in the Pacific
Nearly 90 years after Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific, veteran pilot Justin Myers believes he has cracked the case from his computer screen.
Using Google Earth, Myers identified a distinct, plane-shaped anomaly on the reef of Nikumaroro, a remote atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that’s been mentioned several times as a possible crash site for the plane.
While previous sonar ‘discoveries’ have turned out to be natural rock formations, Myers argues that the object – marked as ‘Taraia Object‘ on both Google Maps and Google Earth – is the same size as the Lockheed Model 10 Electra that Earhart used.
The theory, among other things, also revitalizes the ‘castaway’ hypothesis.
Maybe Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, didn’t die on impact and survived on the island for as long as they could.
Maybe they died on the island and, over the following years, their remains were scattered by scavengers or swept away by the tide.
Either way, it’ll be hard to verify this.
This was 1937, remember.
It would’ve been impossible to contact home if the plane had been lost, and it took decades for researchers to even identify this small atoll as a potential search site.
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