Odd Aircraft ?

The SM.79 is the closest I can get from my memories of trimotors but even that doesn't fit very well. 

A quick search reveals it was Amelia Earhart's long lost aircraft !!!!!!! It's on the internet so it must be true.

One oddity is the nose engines propeller which looks to be a five bladed one but the vertical blade looks shorter than the rest. Secondly the float appears flush to the fuselage so was it on pylons or was it integral to the fuselage, Grumman Duck style? There is no trace of wing floats to keep is level on water.

Or is that not a float?

My best guess is it is an AI generated fantasy photo to fit a story, but happy to be told otherwise.

PS. Just noticed that the engines on the wings are a bit close to the fuselage for the propeller length.
 

It appears she was flying a Lockheed Electra which only had two engines and a twin fin. I wonder if the news item was fake as well or, if not, did they fact check it?  
It did remind me of some of those fantasy models built by kit bashers.

Just looked through the www.newspapers.com, the US newspaper archive, lots of reports but mainly about a log being found that said a distress call had been heard.  All correctly identify the type of aircraft and none have the image of the trimotor or mention a trimotor (in 1928 she used a Fokker trimotor for a transatlantic flight)

 

I keep coming back to that photo. The main part of the aircraft looks like a DC-3 and the apparent sweep on the wings would fit that. Also the nose motor differs from the wing ones. Not ideal for a commercial aircraft unless it was a conversion for testing a new engine.
Still looks AI to me, but happy to be proved wrong.