Overview

• A South Carolina-based ocean exploration company, Deep Sea Vision, claims to have potentially discovered Amelia Earhart's plane, using sonar technology to capture an airplane-shaped object 16,000 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean.
• The discovery was made near Howland Island, where Earhart vanished in 1937 during her attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
• Technical issues with hard drive data retrieval nearly caused the loss of the crucial sonar images, but the data was eventually recovered.
• The findings have been taken to the Scripps Institute and the Smithsonian, which support the possibility that the wreckage belongs to Earhart's plane.
• Plans are underway for a return expedition to the site for confirmation, with hopes to return this year.