Amelia Earhart's Last Flight

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"There is nothing special about flying around the world," George Putnam told his wife Amelia. "People have already done it" (Earhart 73).

"Yes," Amelia replied, "but nobody has ever done it at the Equator, where the distance around the earth is the greatest" (Earhart 73).

On June 1, 1937 Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan departed Miami, Florida bound for California by traveling around the world. The first destination was San Juan, Puerto Rico. From there they would go to the northeast edge of South America, across the Atlantic Ocean to Africa and the Red Sea.

The flight to Karachi (then part of India) was another first-no one had ever flown non-stop from the Red Sea to India before. From Karachi the Lockheed Electra flew to Calcutta on June 17. From there, they flew on


From conducting this research I have learned several things that I did not know about Amelia Earhart. There are several theories about what happened to her. Some of which include: a spy mission authorized by President Roosevelt and was captured, she purposely dove her plane into the Pacific Ocean, she was captured by the Japanese and forced to broadcast to American GI's as "Tokyo Rose" during World War II, and she lived for years on an island in the South Pacific with a native fisherman. Whether any of these theories are true has not been proven. It still remains a mystery as to what happened to Amelia Earhart.

The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca was at the island to keep in radio contact. At first, everything seemed to go well. Earhart radioed she was making good progress and was within 100 miles of the island. Later

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