The explorer who claims to have found Amelia Earhart’s jet is setting his sights on Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
Tony Romeo of Charleston-based Deep Sea Vision says his company plans to send one of its drones to the ocean floor to look for the missing plane.
“I feel like we’ve proved our credibility, we’ve proved our competence,” Romeo told 60 Minutes Australia. “And I believe that the Malaysian government wants answers.”
Flight 370 disappeared 10 years ago on March 8, 2014 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China. The 227 passengers and 12 crew members are presumed dead.
Earlier this year, Romeo claimed his “unbelievable” technology found flight pioneer Amelia Earhart’s lost plane around Howland Island in the central Pacific Ocean.
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Romeo is excited to send his Hugin 6000 drone down for the search.
“It flies at 50 metres above the seafloor and it just goes back and forth, back and forth, back and forth,” Romeo said. “Big eyes, looking at everything it can see, sucks and stores data, comes back up to the surface, we pluck a thumb drive into it, pull the data out, and we watch it on a computer exactly what it looked at.”
Speaking of the government of Malaysia, he said: “I refuse to believe that they do not want a huge accident, a huge crash like this to go unresolved. It just isn’t fair, it wouldn’t be fair to the families.”
Over the years, debris believed to be part of the aircraft has washed ashore in places like Pemba Island and South Africa.
The plane, however, has never been found despite efforts from the Malaysian government and other enterprising individuals.
Last month, Earhart’s family encouraged Romeo’s efforts after he claimed to find the pilot’s plane.
“The image they got does look like a plane, and it is in about the right place where Amelia would’ve crashed,” her great nephew Bram Kleppner said in an interview with Fox News.
Earthart — who made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean and from Hawaii to California— disappeared along with Fred Noonan on July 2, 1937 during a flight from Papua New Guinea to Howland Island.
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