Pilot claims Google Earth image may show Amelia Earhart’s missing plane on Pacific island reef

A pilot with decades of experience flying thinks he may have found an image of Amelia Earhart’s lost plane via Google Earth.

Justin Myers told Popular Mechanics recently he began looking through satellite images of Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific after watching a documentary on her final flight.

“To be totally honest, my interest started after watching a documentary on the National Geographic Channel. It was the next day when curiosity about Nikumaroro Island took me to looking on Google Earth.”

When first looking at images of Nikumaroro, an uninhabited coral atoll in the Pacific, Myers said he wasn’t trying to find the Lockheed Electra 10E. “I was just putting myself in Amelia and [her navigator] Fred’s shoes.”

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