Deep sea explorers explain why they're sure they've found Amelia Earhart's plane 87 years after iconic aviator vanished

Two heavy oversea explorer brothers who 'found' nan wreckage of Amelia Earhart's missing level opportunity they are convinced the 87-year-old  enigma has yet been unraveled.

Deep Sea Vision CEO Tony Romeo and his relative Lloyd set disconnected to find nan level and solve nan enigma of Earhart's disappearance successful September and snapped countless images of nan oversea level 3 miles down.

Two months later, their squad mate Craig Wallace recovered a information record of images believed to beryllium corrupted and almost deleted them. 

But they were wrong. As nan brothers crowded astir Wallace's computer, aggregate images depicting a plane-shaped blob stared backmost astatine them.

They were reasonably assured they'd recovered Earhart's level but weren't fresh to corroborate it 100 percent. Now, they opportunity nan images they captured are an nonstop lucifer to nan dimensions of Earhart's plane.

The images were besides taken successful nan area wherever experts judge she collapsed - successful a 100-mile radius astir Howland Island. 

Deep Sea Vision is keeping nan nonstop location secret, to forestall wealth hunters from beating them backmost to nan site.

The distant 395-acre land is almost halfway betwixt Hawaii and Australia, and Earhart whitethorn person been targeting nan airstrip connected it erstwhile she vanished.

Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan vanished connected July 2, 1937 during an attempted around-the-world flight, arsenic they flew connected a limb betwixt Lae, Papua New Guinea and Howland Island.

Her disappearance generated a myriad of conspiracy theories, pinch immoderate proposing she was a US spy captured by nan Japanese military, aliases that she secretly returned to nan US to unrecorded nether an assumed name.

Another much caller mentation suggested that Earhart collapsed aliases made an emergency landing connected an uninhabited Pacific Island, Nikomaroro, now Gardner Island. 

Bones were recovered connected nan land successful 1940 that scientists later said could beryllium accordant pinch a female of Earhart's size, but they were ne'er confirmed to beryllium hers.

Since Earhart was a Kansas native, there's ever been a batch of liking successful her lawsuit successful nan midwestern state. 

This past weekend, nan yearly Amelia Earhart Festival was held successful Atchison - wherever nan celebrated aviator was calved successful 1897 - and Tony Romeo made an quality to speak astir his jaw-dropping discovery.

As he talked pinch section media successful nan Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum, he stood beneath nan Muriel plane, nan world's last Lockheed Electra 10-E - an identical level to nan 1 Earhart piloted connected her last flight.

'We were retired location for astir 80 days. We scanned astir 5200 quadrate miles,' Tony said.

He added that nan drone they utilized was dropped 50 meters supra nan oversea level and 'mowed nan grass,' fundamentally going backmost and distant wrong group parameters until it recovered something.

He besides went into really perilous their ngo was, fixed really acold distant nan Earhart clang tract is distant from civilization.

'Once you get retired there, you're 3 days distant from anything, truthful if thing goes wrong, you're successful trouble. You can't bring a chopper retired there,' he said. 'Everything you're going to request retired location has to beryllium successful place.'

Tony reiterated his eventual extremity of returning to nan tract and pulling nan level retired of nan water. He antecedently said he wants to donate nan remains to the Smithsonian.

But earlier immoderate extraction operations tin commence, he said nan clang location needs to beryllium canvassed and photographed successful color. 

'We request to see...is it still intact? Are nan wings folded down. We request to spot really it's sitting successful nan sediment, is successful mud, is it successful sand?

'And past we request to spot if there's a debris field,' he added. 'Are location shoes extracurricular nan plane, are location pieces of nan level adjacent that we request to interest astir salvaging?'

And there's a immense consciousness of urgency according to Tony, because nan longer nan level sits astatine nan bottommost of nan ocean, nan worse style it'll beryllium successful erstwhile it's recovered. 

'We want to do it arsenic quickly arsenic possible,' he said, erstwhile asked really agelong this process would take. 

'The level is sitting there, and it's slow disintegrating conscionable for illustration nan Titanic.'