Pilot says Google Earth image may show Earhart’s missing plane on Pacific island

A pilot with decades of flying experience, he thinks he may have found a photo of Amelia Earhart’s missing plane through Google Earth.

Justin Myers told Popular Mechanics recently that he started looking at satellite images of Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific after watching the documentary on his last flight.

“To be completely honest, my interest started after watching a documentary on the National Geographic Channel. It was the next day that curiosity about Nikumaroro Island made me look at Google Earth.”

When he first looked at pictures of Nikumaroro, an uninhabited coral atoll in the Pacific, Myers said he wasn’t trying to find a Lockheed Electra 10E. “I was just putting myself out there for Amelia again [her navigator] Fred’s shoes.”

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But then he tried to think, as a pilot, “where I would not be forced to put a light plane in their place, lost and low on fuel.”

When he got close to where he thought they had tried to land, he saw a “dark-colored, perfectly straight object” about 39 meters, similar to Earhart’s plane.

“I used the measurement tool on Google Earth and to my surprise the minimum tremor was about 39 ft,” he wrote in a blog post.

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“It looked man-made,” he told Popular Mechanics. “It looked like part of a plane’s fuselage, which was amazing in itself, not to mention it could have been Electra 10E NR16020, although the dimensions looked similar.”

Pilot Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, with a map of the Pacific showing the planned route of their final flight. (Getty)

Earhart was attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in 1937 when she and her navigator lost radio contact on July 2 while trying to land on Howland Island in the Pacific, north of Nikumaroro.

Neither the pair nor their plane have ever been found, prompting almost a century of professional and novice investigators to try to figure out what happened to them.

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Myers said as he continued to look at the satellite image, he thought he saw the plane’s debris, thinking he might have been lucky with his sighting.

“We were lucky to see that plane wreckage, as Mother Nature revealed what had been buried in the water for a long time,” he said. “I was able to capture the images before I was again covered by passing weather systems.”

Myers wrote on his blog that he tried to contact multiple agencies about his findings, but was rebuffed.

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The National Transportation Safety Board said that the island is not under its control, so it filed a report with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau but did not hear back.

Earhart’s Lockheed Electra in March 1937. (Getty)

He also contacted Purdue University in California but did not hear back, he also contacted a tour company in the state, but said he had not heard anything from them for a while.

Myers is not the first person to believe they have solved the mystery of the planes disappearance.

Last year, Purdue announced its mission to research the Taraia Object, a mysterious sighting in Nikumaroro that some think may be a plane crash.

The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery also believes that Nikumaroro is where Earhart landed, based on a lot of evidence and a dozen visits to the island between 1989 and 2019, according to Archaeologychannel.org.

Tony Romeo, a former Air Force intelligence officer and CEO of Deep Sea Vision, made news a few years ago after sonar images from the 2023 mission revealed what appeared to be a plane on the beach near Howland.

Google Maps images of Nikumaroro Island. (Google Maps)

But it was soon discovered to be a natural rock formation with plane-like features.

Still, that didn’t stop Myers from what he found.

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“The main thing comes from my interests as a child in vintage airplanes and plane crash investigations, I’d say that’s what used to be an old 12-foot, 2-engine airplane,” he told Popular Mechanics, while adding the caveat that he’s not sure it’s Earhart’s.

And even if it is not the plane of the famous pilot, “then it is the answer to another mystery that has not been answered. This discovery may answer some questions about the person who disappeared many years ago.”