A former pilot claims to have possibly found the wreck of Amelia Earhart's plane almost 90 years after it vanished.
The aviator and her aircraft went missing over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during her attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.
Earhart's body and Lockheed 10-E Electra were never found, leading to years of speculation and theories about what really happened.
But now, Earhart's fate may become clearer, after former pilot and US air force intelligence officer Tony Romeo claimed he collected a sonar image of what could be the missing plane, The Guardian reports.
The blurry images show what appears to be the silhouette of an aeroplane at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Romeo, who sold his business to fund his search for the aircraft, posted the images to Instagram on Saturday.
"This is maybe the most exciting thing I'll ever do in my life. I feel like a 10-year-old going on a treasure hunt," he told the Wall Street Journal.
He is now looking to get higher-quality images to see if it really is the same aircraft.
In 2018, a forensic analysis of bones found on the remote island of Nikumaroro suggested they belonged to Earhart.
That same year, a search crew, separate from Romeo's, found what they claimed to be the plane's wreckage.
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