Amelia Earhart was raised mostly by her grandparents due to her father's alcoholism. As a child, she broke with traditional gender roles and was interested in unconventional activities such as climbing and hunting. After graduating from high school, she worked as a military nurse and social worker before dropping out of medical school in 1919.

After flying for the first time, she decided to become a pilot herself, despite her parents refusing to cover the cost of her pilot's license. Amelia worked various jobs to afford to fly and took her first flying lesson with Neta Snook in 1921. Just six months later, she bought her first plane and soon broke a world altitude record for women. Her parents' divorce in 1924 took her to the East Coast with her mother, where she sold her plane to buy a sports car. Despite this, she continued to work as a teacher and social worker in Boston.

Earhart rose to international fame in 1928 when she became the first woman to fly nonstop across the Atlantic, and was hailed as a hero. After the 20-hour flight, she modestly commented that the pilot had done most of the work and she was just baggage, but she expressed a desire to try it alone one day.

In 1929, Amelia Earhart took part in the first Cleveland Women's Air Derby, an aerial competition for female pilots only, pejoratively referred to as the powder puff race. She received financial and moral support from George Palmer Putnam, a New York publisher. After the race received negative press coverage, she met with four other female pilots and formed the Ninety-Nine Club in the fall of 1929 to promote the role of women in aviation.

In 1932, Amelia Earhart undertook her greatest adventure when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, five years after Charles Lindbergh. On May 20, she took off from Newfoundland for Paris in a modified Lockheed Vega 5B. Although she did not reach Paris due to bad weather and mechanical problems and had to make an emergency landing near Derry, Northern Ireland, she received the National Geographic Society Gold Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross from President Herbert C. Hoover, becoming the first woman to do so.

The Vega 5B used by Amelia Earhart for the flight is now in the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington.

On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly solo across the part of the Pacific Ocean between Honolulu, Hawaii, and Oakland, California, in a Lockheed Model 5C Vega Special. In the same year, she also completed the first solo flight from Mexico City to Newark. She was trained in navigation by pilot Paul Mantz, both herself and her co-pilot.

Shortly before her 40th birthday, she planned to be the first person to orbit the earth at the equator. She began her project with a Lockheed Model 10 Electra, financed by Purdue University. Earhart, an advisor to female students at the university, used the Electra as a flying laboratory, sponsored by the university. After a takeoff accident in Hawaii in March, she aborted the first attempt. Her navigator, Henry Manning, left the project after this accident. With Fred Noonan as the new navigator, she took off again from Miami on May 21, 1937. She flew three quarters of the way via Brazil, West Africa, Calcutta and Rangoon before taking off from Lae in New Guinea on July 2 to cross the Pacific. Her destination was Howland Island, where she planned to make a stopover.

Amelia Earhart planned to find the small Howland Island using radio direction finding. The USCGC Itasca was waiting there to respond to her radio messages. However, Earhart reported that she was not receiving any radio signals while she was apparently wandering in distress over the Pacific. At around 08:40 local time, her navigator gave her the direction of flight (line 157°/337°), after which contact was lost. The plane never reached Howland Island.

Shortly after Earhart's last radio message, the US government launched an extensive search operation: 64 planes and 8 warships participated, making it the largest search operation in aviation history up to that point. More than 400,000 km² of ocean were searched, at a cost of approximately 4 million US dollars. However, neither the plane nor Earhart or her companion were found, and the search was called off on July 19.

Amelia Earhart was officially declared "missing, presumed dead".

Several factors led to the suspected accident:

Incorrect map position of Howland Island, navigation problems caused by the International Date Line, and communication problems. The radio antenna was found on the runway, which limited communication. A possible crash into the sea is assumed, as neither the plane nor the bodies were found. It is suspected that lack of fuel and stabilization problems meant that no distress calls could be sent. Other hypotheses about her fate range from hiding on South Sea islands to being kidnapped by Japanese troops. Reports of calls for help after her disappearance are interpreted as possible signals that could have been created by reflection in the ionosphere.

There is evidence that Amelia Earhart and her navigator may have made an emergency landing on Gardner Island (now Nikumaroro). Finds such as a woman's shoe, a sextant box and a bottle of Bénédictine were discovered there. Bone fragments that may have belonged to Earhart were also found, but a clear identification was not possible. Despite extensive searches, the plane wreckage has not yet been found. One theory is that it was dragged over the coral reef by the current after an emergency landing. Expeditions to search for the wreck have so far been unsuccessful. However, there are also counterarguments, such as the lack of further equipment or wreckage on the island. It remains unclear what happened to Earhart and her plane.

According to this theory, Earhart and her companion were captured by the Japanese after an emergency landing near Mili Atoll and later held captive on Saipan, where they died.

The capture hypothesis received new attention through a History Channel documentary in July 2017. A photo that was mistakenly interpreted as a 1937 photo on Jaluit Atoll was supposed to show Earhart and Noonan in Japanese captivity. However, it turned out that the photo was actually from 1935, as a Japanese blogger noted.

Deep Sea Vision's search for a navigation error due to crossing the date line resulted in a sonar signal in January 2024 that may represent a Lockheed Electra. The wreck lies about 160 kilometers from Howland Island, halfway between Honolulu and Australia, at a depth of almost 4,900 meters. It shows matching contours such as size and twin tails. A more detailed investigation was not possible because the expedition did not recognize the wreck until 90 days later and it was then too late to turn back.

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