Amelia Earhart was a recognized beautiful American aviator who was known for setting flying records and was awarded the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. During a flight to circumnavigate the globe Earhart disappeared somewhere along the lines in the Pacific Ocean in July 1937. Was her disappearance an open-ocean crash near her destination? Could’ve it have been the conspiracy of the Bermuda Triangle? Let’s take a look at what could’ve happened to the greatest unsolved case.
Amelia Earhart Remains to be a symbol of power and perseverance of women in America. She has set the example that you don’t have to be a boy or a man to have an adventurous spirit persona. She was born in Atchison Kansas on July 24. Amelia lived with her grandparents until she was 12 years old. In 1909 Amelia and her younger sister Muriel went to live with her parents in in Des Miones Iowa because their father had been transferred there to a railroad in which he worked at. While living in Des Miones Iowa is where Amelia Earhart laid eyes on her first airplane attending a state fair. In 1920 Earhart took her first airplane ride. “As soon as left the ground” she said “I knew I had to fly” (Amelia Earhart.) Who would’ve thought that her seeing that plane and actually riding one would’ve started her very own journey of being the world’s best known women pilot.
Amelia Earhart was a Feminist. “Even as a child, as a little girl, she said she should be allowed to do anything a boy would be allowed to do” Says Louise Foundry the caretaker and historian for the Amelia Earhart Museum. She had so much motivation to prove people that it doesn’t matter being a girl you can choose to do whatever your heart desires, she gained the respect of male pilots. The example of her parents’ marriage also shaped the way she thought.
Her mother was raised from a wealthy family and Amelia’s father struggled to be able to provide the luxury Amelia’s mother had, he was diagnosed as an alcoholic and later lost his job and eventually they got a divorce. This taught Amelia that she doesn’t need to depend on a man and that wealth wasn’t everything but the pride and drive she had for being a pilot and handling airplanes got her so far in life. George Palmer Putman proposed to Amelia Earhart six times before she finally agreed to marry him. This comes to show that Amelia was a very independent person.
Amelia’s mother always encouraged freedom between Amelia and her sister, her mentality wasn’t to bringing up her children to be “nice little girls” the way her mom raised her of being able to have freedom and adventure was a common trait through her life and is what made her have the confidence and power to be different.
Amelia Earhart was known in her family to start challenging the people that thought stereotype. She was a tomboy, loved climbing trees and hunted rats with a rifle. Amelia was so independent that she worked as a nurse in a military hospital and later on moved on to be a social worker in Boston. She saved enough money so that she can pay for her flying lessons and also saved up when she bought herself her very own plane, a yellow two seated that she named “Canary”. She named it like that because she set her first record ever in Canary when she was the first women to rise a high altitude of 14,000 feet.
Amelia Earhart continued to set many records, and impressed America in mysterious ways. In 1928 she had the opportunity to accompany pilot Wilmer Stoltz on a 20-hour flight across the Atlantic to England. This is where the flight received a mass deal of media attention and when Amelia become a public figure.
Amelia’s Earhart disappearance has been one of the most historic events in history. During the attempt to make a circumnavigation flight of the globe in 1937. The model they were in a Purdue-funded Lockheed model 10-e Electra. “They were aiming for tiny Howland Island just north of the equator in in the central Pacific Ocean, although they couldn’t find how land after many attempts no one has seen them since”. (Top 3 theories for Amelia’s Earhart). Amelia Earhart flew and sadly disappeared with Fred Noonan. They ceased to exist over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. They haven’t been able to find the remains of her body, so what could’ve happened to the most famous women pilot in America history?
Theory One: Open ocean crash landing near destination. Amelia Earhart and Noonan apparently ran out of fuel on the way to their destination to Howland Island and the plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean. The coast guard in the United States that was trailing and assisting on the Earhart’s and Noonan Plane. He was providing radio display and smoke plume. The Communication was scarce and lost. “According to the Itasca’s radio logs, Earhart indicated she must be near the island but couldn’t see it and was running low on gas. The Electra never made it to the island”. (Top three theories for Amelia Earhart’s disappearance).
Nauticos a Hanover, Maryland company, about 16 years ago This Company that performs what they are calling a deep-ocean search and other services. Nauticos made an effort to locate Earhart’s plane where they believe landed somewhere along the Pacific Ocean. “Nauticos president David Jourdan said in 2003 that, by studying factors such as Earhart's broken-up radio transmissions and what is known about the Electra's fuel supply, he and his colleagues had narrowed down an area of the ocean that they believe will eventually yield the plane's grave. (Top Three theories for Amelia Earhart’s disappearance). “we are confident in the area so they kept on searching” said Jourdan. Jourdan contradicts himself with what he said because following up he says “Of course we cannot guarantee it because it could be on the outside edge but we are sure it is in the vicinity”. In March and April of what was 2002 the company used this high-tech deep sea sonar system to be able to search about 700 square miles from the ocean floor near where they might have landed in Howland. They came to the conclusion that they didn’t find the plane and even with a 2006 follow up no plane was found.
Later on in the year 2009 there was a team that organized another search that was done by Waitt Institute for Discovery and with the help of some deep-sea robots. The search turned up no clues. This concludes that the theory of it being an ocean castaway was false. On a Thursday Morning I went around My College campus, College of the Mainland to do a survey on what people thought about the Amelia Earhart disappearance. 30 Percent said that it might have been an ocean castaway and nothing else linked to it.
The Bermuda Triangle is what many people and researchers have determined that’s what has caused hundreds of planes to mysteriously disappear. The Bermuda triangle has been known as a mythical area of the Atlantic Ocean to make planes and ships disappear. “Unexplained circumstances surround some of these accidents, including one in which the pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers became disoriented while flying over the area; the planes were never found.” (History.com) Some planes and boats have vanished even in a pretty blue sky without a distress radio message. “The area referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil’s Triangle, covers about 500,000 square miles” (History.com) You will never see it coming or there isn’t point in the ocean to not cross that. The person flying the plane possibly isn’t in the ocean but is maybe up in the sky around it and who knows what could go wrong. The number of planes that have crashed in the Bermuda Triangle have never been found. The same survey that was taken at College of the Mainland by going around and asking random people boy and girl the simple questions of “How do you think Amelia Earhart Disappeared, was it an open crash ocean landing or Bermuda Triangle?’ 70 percent answered that it was the cause of the Bermuda Triangle.
“March 1918 when the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship with over 300 men and 10,000 tons of manganese ore onboard, sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay. The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call despite being equipped to do so, and an extensive search found no wreckage. “Only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship,” U.S. President Woodrow Wilson later said.” (History.com) In 1941 two of the great known Cyclops’ sister ships went around the same route, they vanished without a trace left anywhere. A trail started to accumulate whether it was a ship or plane left with no trace and it vanishing from midair.
“December 1945, five Navy bombers carrying 14 men took off from a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, airfield in order to conduct practice bombing runs over some nearby shoals. But with his compasses apparently malfunctioning, the leader of the mission, known as Flight 19, got severely lost. All five planes flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel and were forced to ditch at sea. That same day, a rescue plane and its 13-man crew also disappeared. After a massive weeks-long search failed to turn up any evidence, the official Navy report declared that it was “as if they had flown to Mars.” (History.com). These aren’t even half of the disappearances that have happened in the Bermuda triangle if I were to listen them all this paper would be never ending. The vanishing of Amelia Earhart has yet to be found and by the looks of the luck of the Bermuda Triangle nothing is found when it’s the cause of a disappearance.
Amelia Earhart was a recognized beautiful American aviator who was known for setting flying records and was awarded the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. During a flight to circumnavigate the globe Earhart disappeared somewhere along the lines in the Pacific Ocean in July 1937. Was her disappearance an open-ocean crash near her destination? Could’ve it have been the conspiracy of the Bermuda Triangle? Let’s take a look at what could’ve happened to the greatest unsolved case. From 1937 to 2018 there has been no sign of anybody finding out what happened to Amelia Earhart. Everyone is going to have assumptions to everything and make up stories but them aren’t any proven facts about the disappearance. The most reliant theory would be they got sucked into the Bermuda Triangle.
Works Cited
History.com Staff. “Amelia Earhart.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2009, www.history.com/topics/amelia-earhart.
“Amelia Earhart Biography.” Encyclopedia of World Biography, www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Earhart-Amelia.html.
“Top 3 Theories for Amelia Earhart's Disappearance.” National Geographic, National Geographic Society, 11 July 2017, news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/amelia-earhart-disappearance-theories-spd/.
History.com Staff. “Bermuda Triangle.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2010, www.history.com/topics/bermuda-triangle.
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