Amelia Earhart's disappearanceover the central Pacific Ocean 87 years ago remains one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history. Countless theories about her fate have emerged in the decades since, but now a deep-sea exploration team searching for the wreckage of her small plane has provided ...
Amelia Earhart, the first person to fly across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, disappeared while flying in 1937. Read about her plane, death, and more facts.
In a mystery that continues to provoke impassioned debate to this day, Earhart never arrived at Howland Island, and the wreckage of her plane, and the remains of both Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan have never conclusively been located, despite a large-scale search in the area of Howlan...
The found the remains of a buckknife. Is Amelia Earhart really more likely to have brought a buckknife to Nikumaroro than pearl divers, the British settlers, the operators of an 1892 coconut plantation, or the 25 crew of a 1944 Coast Guard station? At its height, Nikumaroro had a popu...
“Pacific islanders don’t wear shoes, so we know there was one foreign castaway, and maybe two, a man and a woman... We hope this summer to recover human remains for DNA testing and find aircraft pieces that could be conclusively identified as from Amelia’s plane. “...
In June 1928, Earhart and two men flew from Newfoundland, Canada, to Wales, Great Britain. Although Earhart’s only function during the crossing was to keep the plane’s log, the flight won her great fame, and Americans were enamored of the daring young pilot. The three were honored with...
Though no sign of the celebrity pilot or her plane have been definitively identified, possible skeletal remains have been attributed to Earhart. The partial skeleton was recovered and investigated by British officials in 1940. Their investigation concluded that the remains were those of a stocky, ...
The trailblazing aviator’s disappearance remains a source of fascination—and controversy. By:History.com Editors Updated:March 29, 2023|Original:June 4, 2010 copy page linkPrint Page SSPL/Getty Images On the morning of July 2, 1937,Amelia Earhartand her navigator, Fred Noonan, took off from...
The man who found the RMS Titanic is leading a search for the remains of Amelia Earhart decades after she vanished without a trace while flying across the Pacific.
None of this proves the remains are those of Earhart, of course; that could only happen if the skeleton were found and subjected to DNA testing. But it does offer another piece of evidence that suggests that Earhart and her co-pilot might have lived as castaways stranded on a remote island...