Research Paper On Amelia Earhart

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What do you think happened to Amelia Earhart? Millions of people know the famous aviator, Amelia Earhart. But not so many people know how she died. There are multiple assumptions for what happened to Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan.

Her first flight, in 1920 was the start of something huge. She began flying many places, like across the Atlantic to Britain, and from Hawaii to the US Mainland. These flights were the many things that made her famous. Not so long after, she had bigger plans, something much more complicated than a flight as easy as Hawaii to the US Mainland. (Rossi).

July 2nd, 1937 she took off from Lae, New Guinea with her navigator, Fred Noonan. This was a bigger challenge than the other flights, it wasn’t as

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