Ex-US air force pilot claims he may have located lost Amelia Earhart plane

Tony Romeo believes sonar images may well be wreckage of plane flown by US aviator that disappeared over Pacific in 1937

A modern-day ocean explorer has claimed to have possibly solved one of the great mysteries of modern aviation by publishing sonar images which he claims may show the wreckage of the the airplane flown by Amelia Earhart at the bottom of the Pacific.

Earhart's plane disappeared over the Pacific in 1937 as she sought to become the first woman to fly around the world. Ever since then, mystery has surrounded the American aviator's fate amid intense speculation as to what happened to her.