Amelia Earhart story has captivated curious minds since she first decided to
make her doomed flight more than 80 years ago she took a terrible risk by
trying to fly all the way across the globe and she paid for it in her life
ever since people have been desperate to know what happened to Amelia Earhart
let's find out
by the time of her disappearance Amelia Earhart was already a well-known
and well decorated pilot in 1932 she became the first woman to complete this
solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean flying high from her airborne
accomplishments the plucky pilot decided to take on an even longer and more
dangerous journey a circumnavigation of the entire globe by plane on June 1st
1937 Amelia Earhart took off from Miami Florida alongside her navigator Fred
Noonan in a twin-engine all-metal airliner the Earhart nicknamed her
flying laboratory they stopped in several spots across South America
Africa India and Southeast Asia while making their way across the globe
and reporting back to the US media about what they saw along the way finally
after almost a month of air travel a duo landed in New Guinea with over 22,000
miles flown and just 7,000 left to go over the Pacific Ocean back to
California three days later the stroke of midnight Earhart and Noonan took off
headed for a small island way to Hawaii called kaolinite but they
would never make it there alive just five hours after taking off a chaotic
search and rescue effort was underway the US Navy and Coast Guard launched
their biggest and by far most expensive air and sea search ever in American
history to find the famed pilot the search lasted 17 days and when it failed
to find any trace Earhart's husband financed his own search party to
continue looking but he too came up empty-handed
the US government legally declared Earhart dead 18 months later on January
5th 1939 but the mystery around her disappearance has never been fully for
to rest the first and most popular theory is also the official finding from
the government they concluded that the two experienced pilots got lost ran out
of fuel crashed into the ocean and other theories are more salacious though they
don't have much evidence to back them up for instance there's a theory that
Earhart was actually a US spy who was sent to spy on Islands controlled by
chip and may have even been captured to
itself others go the opposite direction and say Erhard actually returned home
safely changed your name and lived a nice long life out of the spotlight but
there's little to no evidence supporting either theory so those are out the last
popular possibility is that our doomed duo crash-landed on a tiny deserted
island known as nakooma ruh-roh since 1989 a group of experts had been
combing that island for clues and have made some compelling discoveries
improvised tools shoes and pieces of wreckage that match Earhart's lost plane
so date Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan managed to crash land on a remote island
like castaways building makeshift tools to survive every year we get closer to
finding answers but the truth is we'll never know for certain exactly what
happened to Amelia Earhart's fatal flight and now you know a little bit
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