Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart is a American aviatrice , born the July 24th 1897 and dead the July 2nd 1937.

Its exploits

First woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean in 1928 (pilot Wilmer Stultz and copilot Louis Gordon);
First woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean as a recluse (1932);
First woman to make a transcontinental flight without stopping;
First woman to cross the Pacific Ocean of Honolulu to the California;
First woman to control a Autogiro;
First woman to be flown of Mexico City to New York in record time 14 hours, 19 minutes;
First woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross-country race and the gold medal of the Geographical National company.

One had called it Miss Lindy, in wink with the winner of the North Atlantic Charles Lindbergh, because of a certain physical resemblance to this last.

Its death

It disappeared at sea on July 2nd, 1937, whereas it tried, with its navigator Fred Noonan, to make the round the world tour by the east, while passing by the equator. The US government, the president Roosevelt at the head, launched ten ships and about fifty planes to its research, during 4 months. No trace of their apparatus was detected, not more than were not collected of testimony on the last islands which they were supposed to fly over.

The mystery

Since its disappearance at sea, and the fact that no trace of the plane was never found, several assumptions were put forth, supposing that its death is not due to a banal accident. None of these following assumptions could be proven, checked or confirmed.

the round the world tour was a pretext for a flight of espionage (similar to that of the U2), with which the US government had instructed it, with the top of the Japanese installations of the Pacific. Located, the plane would have been cut down by the Japanese ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENSE.
Amelia would have been captured by the Japanese, who used it during all the duration of the conflict, in company of other captive Anglo-Saxon and Japanese english-speaking, under the pseudo one of Tokyo Pink as a psychological Arme or of propaganda pro-Japanese, with an aim of démotiver the Marines via the comments broadcast where were suggested, between pieces of Jazz or others " tubes" moment, the inaccuracy of their partners remained with the country and the credulity of the volunteers, used like cannon fodder.
It would have lived, after a landing of fortune, on an island of the Pacific in company of autochtones.

The thesis the least discussed to explain this disappearance is that of an error of navigation, followed by a dry breakdown to the top of the ocean. The plane was to land on the tiny island of Howland, in the full Pacific, and the US Navy had sent there a ship provided with a radio. With 19:30 GMT it accepted the message " … Should be to Us above you, but we let us not see you… The fuel starts with baisser".

See too

External bonds

Official site '' (in English) ''.
Amelia Earhart on aérostories.

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