{"id":181695,"date":"2024-01-30T10:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-say-theyve-finally-found-the-wreckage-of-amelia-earharts-plane"},"modified":"2024-01-30T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:23:14","slug":"scientists-say-theyve-finally-found-the-wreckage-of-amelia-earharts-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-say-theyve-finally-found-the-wreckage-of-amelia-earharts-plane","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say They\u2019ve Finally Found the Wreckage of Amelia Earhart\u2019s Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-theyve-finally-found-the-wreckage-of-amelia-earharts-plane2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Carolina-based ocean exploration company Deep Sea Vision <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/science\/amelia-earhart-lost-plane-found-843e9e9c\" class=\"\">claims to have found<\/a> the aircraft of American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who famously disappeared back in 1937 while trying to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, the discovery could be a huge development in one of aviation\u2019s greatest mysteries.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of an underwater drone equipped with a high-tech radar and a 16-member crew, Deep Sea Vision claims to have come across an object that closely resembles Earhart\u2019s Lockheed Electra aircraft roughly 16,000 feet below the surface and 100 miles off Howland Island, a location where the two were supposed to land to refuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina-based ocean exploration company Deep Sea Vision claims to have found the aircraft of American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who famously disappeared back in 1937 while trying to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe. If confirmed, the discovery could be a huge development in one of aviation\u2019s greatest mysteries. With the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}