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Amelia Earhart
1897-1939
Latest News: An Exploration Team Believes It Found Amelia Earhart’s Missing Plane
Is the 86-year mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance close to being solved? A marine explorer and his team believe they have found her long-lost airplane.
Deep Sea Vision, a marine robotics company led by private pilot Tony Romeo, released a sonar image January 29 depicting a shape similar to the contours of a Lockheed 10-E Electra plane—the same craft Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan were flying when they vanished over the Pacific Ocean in July 1937. The discovery, the exact location of which Deep Sea Vision is keeping a secret, was part of a 90-day search spanning roughly 5,200 square miles of ocean floor. Authorities are working to validate the group’s findings.
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Romeo believes the image, taken about 100 miles from Howland Island, supports the “Date Line Theory” surrounding Earhart’s disappearance. This posits that navigator Noonan miscalculated their position by roughly 60 miles after forgetting to account for the International Date Line during their flight and forcing the plane into an ocean landing. “We always felt that [Earhart] would have made every attempt to land the aircraft gently on the water, and the aircraft signature that we see i
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Amelia Earhart – Aviator, Trendsetter, Legacy
Amelia was 10 when she first encountered an airplane at a state fair. Dismissing it as a “thing of rusty wire and wood” and not looking “at all interesting," her opinion would significantly change a decade later.
Amelia lived in several cities, including Chicago, where she attended Hyde Park High School. Amelia had always shown an aptitude for science and sports in school, but her parents’ rocky relationship and absentee father instilled an independence in Amelia, and a resistance to others “taking care” of her. A visit to her sister Muriel in Toronto during World War I first exposed Amelia to wounded soldiers – many of whom were pilots – and she became a volunteer nurse’s aide for the Red Cross. Amelia began medical studies at Columbia University, but relocated to California to support her parents. It was there she became seriously interested in aviation, and realized her destiny during her first plane ride in 1920: "By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly."
Amelia took her first flying lesson in 1921 and six months later, with financial assistance from her mother and sister, bought her first plane: a second-hand, bright yellow, two-seater Kinner Airster she christened "The Canary."
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