The Mysterious Final Flight of Amelia Earhart
In the many years since Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished while flying over the Pacific on July 2, 1937, people have desperately tried to figure out what really happened to the famous aviator. We look at Earhart's last flight, the factors that may have contributed to what went wrong and the current prevailing theories about her disappearance.
Earhart was pursuing a new recordOn May 21, 1937, Earhart took off from Oakland, California, and headed east.