The Mysterious Disappearance of Amelia Earhart (1937)

Amelia Earhart was the first woman that successfully completed an intercontinental solo-flight. She established many speed- and distance records and the world still sees her as a pioneer in aviation. She disappeared during a flight over the Pacific Ocean. Official investigations concluded she died in a plane crash over the ocean, a simple crash-and-sink. Yet, the disappearance has been shrouded in mystery and has been fruitful ground for theories about her actual whereabouts.

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0:00 Introduction
1:18 Amelia Earhart
4:34 Disappearance
9:19 Recent Investigations (2016-2018)

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Amelia started planning her round-the-world journey for nearly two years and a specific aeroplane, the Lockheed Electra 10E, was built for this exact purpose. The first attempt failed because of an uncontrolled ground-loop during take-off. The plane was badly damaged and required repairs.

In June that same year Amelia announced she would fly east-ward and try to circumnavigate the globe. Together with aviator Fred Noonan she set off to cross the Pacific ocean. Okay, so this journey actually went very well. They departed from Miami, Florida on June 1st. They then crossed the Atlantic Ocean via South America, arriving in Africa. Here they stopped and refuelled and flew over the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. You can see the route they took on-screen, and as you can probably tell, they were nearly done. All that was left when they arrived in New Guinea was to cross the Pacific Ocean.
During their flight on July 2nd, from New Guinea to the small Howard island, Amelia radioed several times that the plane was about to run out of fuel. The radio signal rapidly deteriorated until it was lost altogether. It seemed that the couple crashed into the Pacific Ocean, nearby the Nukumanu islands.

When there ceased to be radio contact a large-scale rescue mission was set up. Those involved in the rescue mission requested radio-amateurs and professional radio operators alike to monitor the radio frequency Amelia had been contacting radio operators on during her flight. Naval vessels were instructed to look out for her in the area actively. Now, because the Pacific Ocean is quite large to put it mildly, you wouldn’t expect any success with it. At least I wouldn’t. But what makes Amelia’s disappearance so curious is that, well, people listening to the frequency of Amelia’s aircraft actually received radio messages!
In total, 56 people had heard over 100 radio broadcasts on the frequency. Many of the radio broadcasts were unintelligible because of the poor connection, but some claim transmissions were clear enough to recognise the voice of Amelia. It seemed she, together with Noonan, was alive.

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Sources:

https://www.livescience.com/63212-ame...
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/08/he...
https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1...
https://www.biography.com/explorer/am...

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