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Amelia Mary Earhart (/ ˈ ɛər h ɑːr t / AIR-hart; born July 24, 1897; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer. On July 2, 1937, she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world. During her life, Earhart embraced celebrity culture and women's rights ...
Joseph Force Crater, New York City judge, disappeared on the way to a play in 1930, declared dead in 1939. Amelia Earhart, pioneer, aviator, disappeared during a transoceanic flight in 1937. Ettore Majorana, Italian physicist, disappeared at sea in 1938. Richard Halliburton, author and voyager, Pacific Ocean, lost at sea in 1939.
The US Navy and Coast Guard conducted a 16-day search for the missing duo without success, and Earhart was officially declared dead on Jan. 5, 1939. Bettmann Archive
Amelia Earhart in Southampton, England, on 25 June 1928 (AP) ... The pair were finally declared dead in absentia on 5 January 1939 but her legacy has remained a source of fascination ever since ...
Amelia Earhart set flying records, ... She was 39 years old when she went missing somewhere over the South Pacific, and was declared legally dead after an exhaustive but fruitless search.
Fred Noonan with Amelia Earhart. Amelia Earhart met Noonan through mutual connections in the Los Angeles aviation community and chose him to serve as her navigator on her World Flight in the Lockheed Electra 10E that she had purchased with funds donated by Purdue University. She planned to circumnavigate the globe at equatorial latitudes.
She was declared dead two years later after the U.S. concluded she had crashed somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, and her remains were never found. Romeo believes the image, while blurry, is Earhart ...
The US Navy and Coast Guard conducted a 16-day search for the missing duo without success, and Earhart was officially declared dead on Jan. 5, 1939.. Despite many attempts and millions of dollars ...