Amelia Earhart is a
female aviator who has achieved many accomplishments and being an idol of
American. A lot of achievements that she get as an aviator in that time. “Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
Letter from Amelia Earhart to her husband, George Putnam, 1935.
Letter from Amelia Earhart to her husband, George Putnam, 1935.
The chronology
of Amelia Earhart disappearance with her navigator, Fred Noonan.
June 1, 1937
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Begin a project 29,000-mile trip around the globe, taking off from Miami.
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June 30, 1937
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-Amelia and Fred
Noonan have landed in Lae, New Guinea after flying 22,000 miles.
-Their next leg is
more dangerous and the longest of the trip because the need to fly about
2,550 miles to tiny Howland Island.
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July2, 1937
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-Both of them leave Lae.
-19 hours later, Amelia send a
transmission saying that gas is running slow and she unable to reach Itasca
by radio.
-About an hour, Amelia transmits her rough’s
coordinates to Itasca hoping that they can come to her place and help her.
- There is no more news heard from
Amelia.
-2 hours later, Coast Guard Official
decided that Amelia is running out of fuel and safely landed in the ocean.
- The search for Amelia and Fred
begins.
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July 18, 1937
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The U.S calls of the search
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January 5, 1939
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Amelia Earhart is declared legally
dead in a court in Los Angeles.
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October 1940
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-British Colonial administrator of
Gardner Island, uninhabited island now called Nikumaroro, south Howland
Island, recovers a partial human skeleton.
- Mission of finding Amelia is
continued and the efforts from the rescue team in searching Amelia never
stop.
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Theories Mystery of
Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
A lot of speculation
and theories have been debated for decades.
- Popular theory is Amelia believed landed safely the airplane on the uninhabited islands in the area.
- Some theory said that Amelia deliberately crashed the plane into the pacific on a suicide run.
- She is being shot down or maybe run out of fuel, the doomed pilot crash-landed in Japanese Marshall Island. They were executed or jailed by Japanese army.
- The plane crashed in the ocean and sank.
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