Amelia Earhart Disappears 71 Years Ago Today

[ToughOmbre]

Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937 while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight along the equator.

One of the great mysteries of the 20th century.

TO

 

[timshatz]

Out of gas, in the water. Gone.

Sad, but she wasn't the first or last it happened to. But maybe the most famous.

 

[RabidAlien]

Lots of nothing out there, in the middle of the Pacific, lots of room for anything to happen. Still, she was a pioneer and a crusader in her day.

 

[pbfoot]

They are filming a movie about her here with Richard Gere and Hilary Swank they are doing a lot of the flying scenes at St Catharines airport formally EFTS 9 about 6 mi away