A sonar image shows what looks like an object shaped like an airplane, resting underwater within 100 miles of Howland Island, near where Earhart was believed to have gone down.

The team spotted the plane-shaped object between Australia and Hawaii, about 100 miles off Howland Island, which is where Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were supposed to refuel but never ...

A new deep-sea exploration company has revealed a sonar image of an airplane-shaped anomaly 16,000 feet underwater — and it could be Amelia Earhart’s missing plane.

At about 5 p.m. they radioed their position as being over the Pacific near Howland Island and said they were low on fuel. Earhart radioed again at about 8 p.m. It was their last transmission and ...

A team investigating a plane wreck in the Pacific Ocean believes it may be linked to the disappearance of famous aviator Amelia Earhart — but it's just one of a number of competing theories.

Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean 80 years ago, but those decades have done little to satisfy the appetite of investigators still searching for her true fate.

Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean is completely empty and inhospitable yet has played an intriguing role in WWII and in the tragic end of American aviator Amelia Earhart. Comments.

The first (and simplest) is that Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan, flying their Lockheed Electra 10E, simply ran out of fuel and crashed into the vast Pacific Ocean short of Howland Island, where ...

It covers approximately 490,000 square miles of open ocean, coral reef, various marine life, and island habitats in the Pacific Ocean and includes seven National Wildlife Refuges associated with ...