Amelia Earhart's Disappearance Explored in Five Scenarios

Amelia Earhart's Disappearance Explored in Five Scenarios

Amelia Earhart disappeared somewhere in the Central Pacific while piloting her Lockheed Electra aircraft on an around-the-world flight. On the morning of 2 July 1937, Earhart headed east over open ocean outbound from Lae, New Guinea toward Howland Island to refuel. Next morning, she was lost and out of fuel. Three hours later, the navy declared her missing and presumed lost at sea. Speculations abound about Amelia Earhart's fate: Earhart was on a secret aerial reconnaissance mission to photograph the Japanese naval base on Truk. - Lost, Earhart crash-landed her Electra in the Marshalls. Japanese marines captured her and executed her as a spy. - The Japanese captured Earhart. After the conclusion of the Pacific War, naval intelligence secreted her to the United States with a nom de guerre . - Lost, Earhart landed on an uninhabited atoll and died as a castaway. - Lost, Earhart ditched her Electra into the sea and perished.