Amelia Earhart's Plane Finally Found?

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There's a bunch of news that Amelia Earhart's plane has been detected 16,000 feet underwater!

Quote:Amelia Earhart's disappearance over the central Pacific Ocean 87 years ago remains one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history. Countless theories about her fate have emerged in the decades since, but now a deep-sea exploration team searching for the wreckage of her small plane has provided another potential clue — including a new video released Monday.

Deep Sea Vision, a Charleston, South Carolina-based team, said this weekend that it had captured a sonar image in the Pacific Ocean that "appears to be Earhart's Lockheed 10-E Electra" aircraft.

The company, which says it scanned over 5,200 square miles of the ocean floor starting in September, posted sonar images on social media that appear to show a plane-shaped object resting at the bottom of the sea. The 16-member team, which used a state-of-the-art underwater drone during the search, also released a new video of the expedition Monday evening, showing the team reviewing images taken by a submersible.

"After an extensive deep-water search, a talented group of underwater archaeologists and marine robotics experts have unveiled a sonar image that may answer the greatest modern mystery — the disappearance of Amelia Earhart," Deep Sea Vision wrote on Instagram.

I don't know because if they just found out at the bottom of the ocean, how have they not found it before?

I realize that it's deep, but it was right near where their last knowing location was, so wouldn't the first thing they did was search the ocean floor around that area?

Unless they mean it's below the bottom of the ocean. and buried under the ocean floor, but it sounds like that's not the case, and, even if it were, they would have combed the ocean floor immediately after and in the years after before it was buried.

It's cool that they found it, but it says the guy that found it spent 11 million with the sonar equipment and you have to wonder how many hundreds of millions have been spent looking for her over the years and what's the reward for finding her?

Are they going to find out anything about what happened? It's been, what, 87(?) years, so wouldn't any evidence be deteriorated by now?

How does this add anything to the story?