Amelia Mary Earhart was best known as the first female pilot to solo fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and incredible author. She was one of few people that received the “U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross” for her flying accomplishments. Also, Amelia Earhart set many other records, for example, Earhart wrote a number of best-selling books based on her individual flying experiences. However, during her attempt to fly around the world in 1937, Earhart had mysteriously disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. There were several ideas on how the disappearance of Amelia Earhart came to be. Conclusions rationalize she either ran out of fuel, was left stranded on an island, was taken by the
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Earhart may have landed safely on the island known as Nikumaroro, but died before she could have been rescued. The TIGHAR team suggests, “The Earhart made more than 100 radio transmissions calling for help between July 2 and July 6 of 1937, which rules out the possibility of her plane crashing” (Pequenino). In the team’s concept, Amelia Earhart would have had enough fuel to land on the island since she was able to call for help. Since the S.O.S. calls were admitted over the course of four days, it is only logical that she would have had a radio. The only known radio that Amelia could have used was the one within her aircraft. If Earhart had the plane when she landed on Nikumaroro Island, then she would have been able to call for help until she died from the elements. A major discovery is the finding of a skeleton on the island of Nikumaroro, Kiribati, in 1940 that may have belonged to Earhart. They say, “But in 1998, the TIGHAR team recovered the original files -- with the 1940 skeleton's measurements -- and sent them to forensic anthropologists Karen Burns and Richard Jantz.’The morphology of the recovered bones, insofar as we can tell by applying contemporary forensic methods to measurements taken at the time, appears consistent with a female of Earhart's height and ethnic origin,’ Teams noticed something peculiar when updating the information about the …show more content…
During the time of Amelia Earhart’s flight complications with the United States and Japan were at its highest. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was doing all he could to prevent any other forms of disaster to the United States by Japan following the Pearl Harbor attack. In order to do so some feel Roosevelt enlisted Earhart to spy on Japan. Earhart’s route took her from California to South America, then across Africa to India followed by crossing the northern tip of Australia end route where they would stop at Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean to refuel. According to the official account, Earhart would have never gotten close to Japan. Besides, her voyage was anything from secret, “The Earhart-as-spy theory emerged from a 1943 film about Earhart called ‘Flight for Freedom’ and starring Rosalind Russell, but no evidence supports its veracity” (History.com Staff). This ideal came from the presence of war between the nations and was expressed in writings. For example, “A 1987 book described the purported landing of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra on Saipan Island, just north of Guam. U.S. military personnel quoted in the book claimed they found Earhart’s briefcase in a safe on the island and guarded her aircraft before it was destroyed by the American military in a cover-up. However, no physical evidence has been offered to back up these verbal accounts. Furthermore, Saipan lies
Earhart may have landed safely on the island known as Nikumaroro, but died before she could have been rescued. The TIGHAR team suggests, “The Earhart made more than 100 radio transmissions calling for help between July 2 and July 6 of 1937, which rules out the possibility of her plane crashing” (Pequenino). In the team’s concept, Amelia Earhart would have had enough fuel to land on the island since she was able to call for help. Since the S.O.S. calls were admitted over the course of four days, it is only logical that she would have had a radio. The only known radio that Amelia could have used was the one within her aircraft. If Earhart had the plane when she landed on Nikumaroro Island, then she would have been able to call for help until she died from the elements. A major discovery is the finding of a skeleton on the island of Nikumaroro, Kiribati, in 1940 that may have belonged to Earhart. They say, “But in 1998, the TIGHAR team recovered the original files -- with the 1940 skeleton's measurements -- and sent them to forensic anthropologists Karen Burns and Richard Jantz.’The morphology of the recovered bones, insofar as we can tell by applying contemporary forensic methods to measurements taken at the time, appears consistent with a female of Earhart's height and ethnic origin,’ Teams noticed something peculiar when updating the information about the …show more content…
During the time of Amelia Earhart’s flight complications with the United States and Japan were at its highest. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was doing all he could to prevent any other forms of disaster to the United States by Japan following the Pearl Harbor attack. In order to do so some feel Roosevelt enlisted Earhart to spy on Japan. Earhart’s route took her from California to South America, then across Africa to India followed by crossing the northern tip of Australia end route where they would stop at Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean to refuel. According to the official account, Earhart would have never gotten close to Japan. Besides, her voyage was anything from secret, “The Earhart-as-spy theory emerged from a 1943 film about Earhart called ‘Flight for Freedom’ and starring Rosalind Russell, but no evidence supports its veracity” (History.com Staff). This ideal came from the presence of war between the nations and was expressed in writings. For example, “A 1987 book described the purported landing of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra on Saipan Island, just north of Guam. U.S. military personnel quoted in the book claimed they found Earhart’s briefcase in a safe on the island and guarded her aircraft before it was destroyed by the American military in a cover-up. However, no physical evidence has been offered to back up these verbal accounts. Furthermore, Saipan lies