LIVE: Explorers who claim they found Amelia Earhart’s plane join #HeyJB Live to discuss what comes next

TAMPA (WFLA) — A sonar image uncovered by a South Carolina-based exploration team has reignited interest in one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.

Tony Romeo, founder and CEO of Deep Sea Visions, and his brother and project manager Lloyd Romeo, will join #HeyJB Live on Wednesday to discuss the team’s findings and what are the next steps in verifying their discovery.

In 1937, Amelia Earhart and flight navigator Fred Noonan took off from the Lae Airfield in Papua New Guinea during their second attempt to fly around the world. The pair disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.

“Amelia is America’s favorite missing person,” Tony Romeo, Founder and CEO of Deep Sea Visions, told The Associated Press.

Romeo and his team, a 16-person crew, say they scanned over 5,200 square miles of ocean floor near Howland Island over a roughly 100-day search to find some trace of Earhart’s plane, a Lockheed 10-E Electra aircraft.

“In the end, we came out with an image of a target that we believe very strongly is Amelia’s aircraft,” Tony Romeo, Founder and CEO of Deep Sea Visions, told The Associated Press.

The fuzzy sonar image the team uncovered has many believing there could be an end to one of the most fascinating mysteries in aviation history.

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