By Patrick Reilly
Publication Date: 2026-03-20 18:47:00
A veteran pilot believes he found Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane on a remote Pacific island with the help of Google Earth nearly 90 years after she vanished.
Justin Myers claims he identified evidence in the GPS images indicative of a wrecked small airplane wasting away on the island of Nikumaroro, long speculated by researchers to be a possible final destination for the aviation icon and her legendary Lockheed 10-E Electra.
Myers, who spent nearly 25 years flying, said he only joined in the Earhart mystery fervor after watching a documentary on her and her navigator Fred Noonan’s doomed 1937 attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
When he started scouring the satellite images, he said he “was just putting myself in Amelia and Fred’s shoes,” he told Popular Mechanics.
Using his own experience as a pilot, he began to consider “where I would have force landed a light…
