Why exploration team believes they found Amelia Earhart’s plane

(CNN)– Amelia Earhart’s disappearance has been a mystery for decades.

Last September, a team of explorers from Charleston set out on a three month expedition to the pacific to try to find her plane.

It was a big gamble for Tony Romeo who bankrolled the expedition with $11 million of his own money.

But now he says it paid-off because the team’s autonomous underwater vehicle caught sonar images of what looks like a plane similar to Earhart’s at the bottom of the pacific ocean.

The sonar image was taken from the bottom of the pacific ocean right about 100 miles from the uninhabited Howland Island.

Romeo said his deep sea vision team hopes to go back to explore that area later this year.