Amelia Earhart Plane Mystery: the America’s biggest unsolved case of missing people when America lost Amelia Earhart in 1839.
Amelia Earhart’s father was a railroad lawyer, and her mother came from an affluent family. Since childhood, Amelia had an adventurous and independent nature for which she would later became known. After the death of her grandparents, the family struggled financially amid her father’s alcoholism. Due to this she had to move often, and she completed high school in Chicago in 1916. However, during a visit to her sister in Canada, Amelia developed an interest in caring for soldiers wounded in World War I. In 1918, she left junior college to become a nurse’s aide in Toronto.
She moved to California, there she went on her first airplane ride in 1920, an experience that promoted her to take flying lessons. In 1921, she bought her first plane, a Kinner Airster, and two years later she earned her pilot’s license. In between she also started working as a social worker at Denison House.
Earhart crossed the Atlantic alone on May 20-21, 1932. her flight in her Lockheed Vega from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, to Londonderry, Northern Ireland, was completed in a record time of 14 hours 56 minutes despite a number of problems. She was known for encouraging women to reject constrictive social norms and to pursue various opportunities, especially in the field of aviation. In 1929 she helped found and organization of female pilots that later became known as the Ninety-Nines.
The Flight that changed everything
In 1937 Earhart set out to fly around the world, with Fred Nooman as her navigator, in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra. On June 1 the duo began their 29,000-mile(47,000-km) journey, departing from Miami and heading east. Less than a month later they reached Lae, New guinea, having flown 22,000 miles and with 7,000 more to go before they reached Oakland once again. After departing from Lae, they had to fly to Howland Island.
They departed on July 2, headed for Howland Island, approximately 2,600 miles (4,200 km) away. The flight was expected to be arduous, especially since the tiny coral atoll was difficult to locate. unfortunately, overcast skies, radio transmission issues, and low fuel meant that Earhart and Noonan did not reach their destination. The plane went missing.
Search Operations for Amelia Earhart Plane
Initial Search (1937): Shortly after her disappearance, the U.S. government and private parties conducted extensive searches in the central and South Pacific, focusing on areas near her last known position. The search area covered thousands of square miles, primarily focusing on the central Pacific around the last known position.
1938-1939
After the initial search was called off, there were sporadic efforts to locate Earhart, but these were limited due to the ongoing global conflict of World War II. In 1939 she was declared dead . That’s how America lost Amelia Earhart in 1839, but the search operations didn’t stop.
Post-War Searches (1940s-1960s)
After World War II, interest in Earhart’s disappearance was briefly revived. One significant development occurred in 1940 when British colonists on Gardner Island (now Nikumaroro) in the Phoenix Islands discovered human bones that were initially thought to belong to Earhart. These bones were later analyzed by Dr. D.W. hoodless, a British pathologist, who concluded that they were likely from a European male.
1980s-1990s
The search for Earhart gained renewed momentum in the 1980s, largely due to the efforts of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), founded by Richard Gillespie. The evidences suggested a potential connection to Earhart and Noonan.
TIGHAR’s theory was that Earhart and Noonan may have crash-landed on Nikumaroro Island, survived for a time, and eventually perished on the island. Their findings sparked considerable interest and debate among historians and aviation enthusiasts.
In recent years, the search for Earhart has continued with both governmental and private initiatives. Modern searches have utilized advanced technologies, including underwater sonar and remote-operated vehicles (ROVs), to explore potential crash sites and wreckage in the vicinity of Nikumaroro and other locations.
Some have speculated that Earhart and Noonan were arrested by Japanese Government.
In January 2024, researchers from the ocean exploration company Deep Sea Vision(DSV) released a sonar image of hat appeared to be Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra plane on the Pacific Ocean floor, 16,000 feet below the surface. The search for Amelia Earhart plane is still going on even after 87 years of her disappearance.
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