An underwater exploration company claims to have located the remains of pioneer Amelia Earhart's plane, which disappeared in 1937. The monoplane in which the American pilot and adventurer and her second were traveling could be almost 5,000 meters deep in the southwestern Pacific.

In September, a crew of 16 began a roughly 100-day search, combing more than 13,468 square kilometers of the seafloor. A diffuse yellow sonar image, which seems to outline the outline of an aircraft similar to the Lockheed 10-E Electra, has been the almost in extremis reward of the mission.