Explorer may have found wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane in Pacific

A view shows the mission to find the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane in the Pacific Ocean by Deep Sea Vision, in this screen grab obtained from a undated video. Deep Sea Vision/via REUTERS

(Reuters) - A former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer says he believes he has found the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane, which disappeared nine decades ago, on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean using sonar data from a deep-sea drone.

Hoping to solve an 87-year-old mystery, explorer Tony Romeo plans to launch a mission later this year or next to find the long-lost plane, which a massive U.S. search failed to do in 1937.