AMELIA EARHART MYSTERY SOLVED AFTER 87 YEARS!

Sonar shows plane resting 16,000 feet under the Pacific

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FAMED female flier Amelia Earhart vanished over the South Pacific without a trace 87 years ago, but now former Air Force intelligence officer Tony Romeo insists his $11 million search has located her plane 16,000 feet below the surface on the Pacific Ocean floor.

Using a high-tech sonar device on a submersible drone, Romeo says his 16-man team located an airplane-shaped object on the ocean floor that he believes is Earhart's Lockheed 10-E Electra.

Now experts are urging him to keep going - and provide deepwater photographs that could confirm his claim.