Mystery of Disappearance


      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.

The chronology of Amelia Earhart disappearance with her navigator, Fred Noonan.

June 1, 1937
Begin a project 29,000-mile trip around the globe, taking off from Miami. 
June 30, 1937
-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.
July2, 1937
-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.
July 18, 1937
The U.S calls of the search
January 5, 1939
Amelia Earhart is declared legally dead in a court in Los Angeles.
October 1940
-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.

Theories Mystery of Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

A lot of speculation and theories have been debated for decades.  
  1. Popular theory is Amelia believed landed safely the airplane on the uninhabited islands in the area.
  2.  Some theory said that Amelia deliberately crashed the plane into the pacific on a suicide run.
  3.  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.
  4.   The plane crashed in the ocean and sank.

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