Amelia Earhart exits her aircraft at Derry, Ireland, after her solo transatlantic flight in 1932. FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean on a solo mission. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross, and became known for setting several aviation records.
During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continued till now but it seems that her remains were finally found on a remote South Pacific Island where she and her navegator may have safely landed.
A partial skeleton was found (and later lost) on the island in 1940 that matched Earhart's description.
Researchers have found items on the island, including a knife and jar, that may have been used by the aviatrix.
Researchers have found items on the island, including a knife and jar, that may have been used by the aviatrix.
Three pieces of a pocket knife and fragments of what might be a broken cosmetic glass jar are adding new evidence that Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan landed and eventually died as castaways on Nikumaroro, an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati. The island was some 300 miles southeast of their target destination, Howland Island. more here
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