Volume 14 , Issue 13

75 Years Ago - Missing Amelia Earhart & Lockheed Plane

Earlier last week we heard in the news that there was a means using sonar to found the missing Lockheed airplane of a woman pilot, Amelia Earhart, when she went missing without a trace over the South Pacific 75 years ago.

Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared July 2, 1937, while flying from New Guinea to Howland Island as part of Earhart's attempt to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe. Amelia's Lockheed Electra plane vanished in what is now the Pacific Nation of Kiribati.

Armed with that analysis by the State Department, historians, scientists and salvagers from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, are returning to the island in July in the hope of finding the wreckage of Earhart's plane and perhaps even the remains of the pilot and her navigator Fred Noonan.

Hillary Clinton hailed Earhart as an inspiration to Americans in difficult times as the nation struggled to emerge from the Great Depression and said her legacy could be a model for the country now. Clinton stated, "Amelia Earhart may have been a unlikely heroine for a nation down on its luck, but she embodies the spirit of an America coming of age and increasingly confident, ready to lead in a quite uncertain and dangerous world," she said. "She gave people hope and she inspired them to dream bigger and bolder."   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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