An Informative Essay On Amelia Earhart's Flight

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“I have a feeling there is one more good flight left in my system and I hope this flight is it.” Is what Amelia Earhart-aviator-said before she left for her last flight. Amelia Earhart disappeared on a mission to fly around the world. Scientists are still puzzled about what happened to the aviator. Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan may have landed on a different island, crashed or maybe she was taken hostage. Amelia Mary Earhart was born to Amy and Edwin Earhart on July 24th 1897. The first ten years of her life were spent at her grandmother's house, while her father was in tough financial times. There, Amelia learned a passion for exploring and curiosity. Around 1907 the family was reunited at last. Sometime after Amelia graduated from high school, she took a trip to Canada. While she was there she witnessed wounded soldiers coming back from World War I. There she decided to join the Red Cross Nurse program to do …show more content…
Amelia and Fred not intending to find Howland Island, similarly to the second theory they may have flown to the nearby Marshall Islands. At the Marshall Islands they may have been taken hostage by the Japanese government as US spies. In one sub-theory they were executed. In another theory both pilots return to the US under different names. However this theory isn't widely supported. For example, Amelia Earhart might have turned into Irene Craigmile. Who later married Guy Bolam and became Irene Bolam and died happily married in New Jersey in 1982. On a mission to fly around the world, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared. Scientists are still wondering what happened to her. To clarify, there are three theories about what Amelia Earhart might have done in her time of distress. She might have landed on a different Island, open ocean crashed, or landed on the Marshall Islands. Amelia Earhart's fate has been hidden for more than eighty years, will what happened to her be revealed in the

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