The company behind a search for pilot Amelia Earhart's possible crash site in the Pacific said a sonar image believed to resemble her plane turned out to be the sea floor's normal shapes. Marine robotics firm Deep Sea Vision said earlier this month on its social media accounts that imagery from an underwater drone deployed during the expedition turned out to show a 'natural rock formation.
Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were expected to refuel on Howland in July 1937, but never arrived. Both were declared dead two years later, despite failure to locate their remains or a crash site. Deep Sea Vision and its CEO, Tony Romeo, did some navigational math and came up with a possible area for a crash site, sending marine archeologists and its HUGIN 6000 submersible vehicle to scan the depths of the ocean 1,600 meters at a time, the company said in a statement early this year.