Eighty years ago today: Earhart’s fate remains a mystery

Amelia Earhart_standing_under_nose_of_her_Lockheed_Model_10-E_Electra_small1_copyToday marks a day in history when a living legend vanished into thin air: Amelia Earhart’s daring round-the-world-flight was cut short when her Lockheed Electra aircraft disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on 2 June 1937.

Having already broken a record for solo flight by crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 1932, five years later, the famed pilot was two-thirds of the way through her second attempt to fly around the world when her plane disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.

Also the navigator Captain Frederick Noonan disappeared along with her. It is believed that it happened en route to a largely uninhabited coral atoll called Howland Island.

Neither Earhart, Noonan nor the plane were ever found and to this day, Earhart’s fate remains a mystery.

Earhart-electra 10Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E