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Amelia Earhart
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An American aviator, the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic, on 20 May 1932, from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland to Northern Ireland in a Lockheed Vega 5B, for which she received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Congress. On 2 July 1937, attempting to circumnavigate the globe with navigator Fred Noonan in a Lockheed Electra 10E, she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean en route from Lae, New Guinea to Howland Island after radio contact was lost. No wreckage has been conclusively identified and her fate remains unresolved.
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1. Wikipedia: Amelia Earhart
1. Wikipedia: Amelia Earhart
WikipediaOpen Questions: What happened to Amelia Earhart after her Lockheed Electra lost radio contact on 2 July 1937?, Lead sectionQuote, Open Questions: What happened to Amelia Earhart after her Lockheed Electra lost radio contact on 2 July 1937?, Lead section
On July 2, 1937, she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world.
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What happened to Amelia Earhart after her Lockheed Electra lost radio contact on 2 July 1937?
Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan departed Lae, New Guinea on 29 June 1937 bound for Howland Island, a tiny mid Pacific target, on the most dangerous leg of a round the world flight attempt. Radio contact was lost as they searched for the island and no confirmed wreckage or remains have ever been recovered despite extensive searches at the time and numerous expeditions since. The official account holds they ran out of fuel and ditched near Howland; competing theories propose a landing on Nikumaroro atoll or elsewhere, and none has produced conclusive physical proof.
What would resolve this Conclusively identified wreckage of the Electra, or remains positively linked to Earhart or Noonan through modern forensic methods, tied to a specific location and consistent with a documented timeline.
Aviation history, maritime archaeology, forensic identificationWikipedia: Amelia Earhart
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