Amelia Earhart was an aviation pioneer. She was the first female to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. She set world records, wrote books, and promoted female empowerment. She was an inspiration to all, and yet, on one fatal flight, she disappeared, never to be seen again. People are still intrigued by Earhart’s disappearance over 80 years ago, whether it is tied up in conspiracy theories or not.
Amelia was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison Kansas, and later, in 1909 Amelia and her sister moved to Des Moines, Iowa with their father. In 1917, WW1 was at an all-time high, and Earhart saw the returning wounded soldiers. She received training from the Red Cross, and there Earhart heard stories from military pilots and started to have an interest in flying. After Charles Lindberg's solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927, Amy Guest was interested in being the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. But she then offered to sponsor the project and wanted to find a different pilot. This is where Amelia stepped in, and would disappear forever.
On July 2, 1937, Earhart and Fred Noonan ( her navigator) left Lae, New Guinea. They were flying to Howland Island, in the central Pacific Ocean, but they never landed there. The government attempted to find Earhart for sixteen days. This involved nine vessels, sixty-six aircraft, and four thousand crewmen. By 1939, Earhart and Noonan were declared dead. Because the bodies and planes were never found, there are many conspiracy theories about what all went down.
THEORIES
Crash-and-sink theorists believe that Earhart ran out of fuel when they were trying to locate tiny Howland Island, crashed into the ocean, and eventually drowned.
A photo found in the National Archives shows a woman who looked like Earhart in the Marshall Islands and a man who looks like Noonan. This helped push the theory that Earhart and Noonan didn't crash, and landed in the Marshall Islands, where the Japanese or other people took them as prisoners.
Another theory suggests that Earhart managed to land her aircraft, but not on Howland Island. The International Historic Aircraft Recovery Group believes Earhart landed on an island that is now called Nikumaroro instead and then died as a castaway.
One extreme theory believes that Earhart was more than just a brave pilot about to become the first woman to fly across the world - she was really a government agent, who either changed her identity and lived the rest of her life peacefully or was sabotaged by enemy spies/countries.
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QUESTIONS
Which conspiracy theory seems most likely to be true?
Do you believe in conspiracies like these?
Have you heard of any theories about Amelia Earhart before?
How do you think she died?
Replies
Great topic choice and super job overall MaryRuth! I would have liked you to say what you think happened to her.
I think that it is most likely that her plane just crashed and she did not survive and I do not realy belive in all of the conspiracy theories. I had never hered of these theories before reading this. I think that she most likely drowned.
I think the first theory would be the true one, because it is the one where I find the most sense of what could have happened, but I still think about it, because no one really knows what really happened.
I think she crashed her plane and either died on impact or found a nearby island and lived on it for a little while then died of starvation. I do believe in conspiracies because she didn't just disappear without any reasoning behind it. Yes, I have heard different and weird stories of how she disappeared.
I concur with the points that you made. I never thought about her starving to death, but I can see how that makes sense. At least one conspiracy theory is true because something happened to her, we just don't know what.
I'm not really sure witch one i think is most true. but no i do not beleave in conspiracies like these. But i have also never. I also think that she died by drownding or maybe even got on a island and had no food or water and that is how she died.
I think one conspiracy would be true is she ran in the ocean and drown because it is hard to travel accross on the world on a plane without using any fuel. I think these 3 first conspiraces are the most possible because i think anything can happen unless we find an answer. Yes ive heard only a couple of these conspiracies. I think she died by drowning or got on an island by those who think she is a enemy and killed her.
I agree, the first three conspiracies make the most sense and I could see them being true. The government agent theory is a bit of a stretch in my personal opinion.
The first conspiracy is most likely to be true since that is more possible/common, the other ones do not make sense. I do not know if I can believe the rest of the conspirancies since they don't sound real. I have also never heard of Amelia Earhart before.
For me it is more credible that they could have run out of fuel and crashed into the ocean, also, that they landed on the wrong island and died like shipwrecks, I really like hearing about these conspiracies but honestly I don't believe them much.
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