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This image which supposedly shows Amelia Earhart as a cast away. The evidence from the article "proves" that Earhart's plane crashed on a deserted island and she died as a cast away on this island because she wasn't able to reach any one to send a distress signal.

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This segment from National Geographic shows different theories that have surrounded Earhart's disappearance for decades. There wasn't a single piece of evidence that distinctly show what exactly happened to her. There are assumptions made that she crash landed in the ocean and her plane sank, as well as some that say she strayed into Japanese territory and was captured. None of these theories have been proven.

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Where's Amelia Earhart? | National Geographic

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This video from a YouTube channel attempts to solve the disappearance. This is a recent video after new evidence surfaced. The evidence shown in this video says that Earhart actually crash landed off an island's coral reef. This theory comes from a piece of aluminum that seemed to come from her airplane.

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Mystery to Amelia Earhart's Disappearance May Now Be Solved

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Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.

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This video shows that there are many theories again about her disappearance. It is very informative because it talks about the many theories that surround her disappearance. There is no actual conclusive evidence that proves any of these theories.

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The Mysterious Disappearance Of Amelia Earhart

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The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart became a national treasure before her mysterious disappearance. But just what happened to her. Don't forget to Subscribe for more Conspiracies! - http://bit.ly/1dmVsvF A massive thank you to our super fans who have supported us on our Patreon page.

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One of history's biggest mysteries may be one step closer to being solved. Researchers at The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) suggest that an aluminum fragment from aviatrix Amelia Earhart 's missing aircraft may have been identified. The 19-inch by 23-inch-long piece of metal - which was found on Nikumaroro, an atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, in a 1991 recovery operation - is believed to have been installed as a patch on Earhart's Lockheed Electra plane during a stopover in Miami.

"The Miami Patch was an expedient field repair," Ric Gillespie, executive director of TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery), told Discovery News. "Its complex fingerprint of dimensions, proportions, materials and rivet patterns was as unique to Earhart's Electra as a fingerprint is to an individual."

The legendary "Lady Lindy," as she was nicknamed after her male counterpart Charles Lindbergh, famously became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928, as well as the first person to fly over both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. However, her legend took a haunting turn on July 2, 1937, when her plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly around the world at the equator.

Over the years various clues have emerged in an attempt to piece together Earhart's last days including the discovery of possible artifacts such as clothing, tools and even anti-freckle cream. However, this is the first time evidence recovered from Nikumaroro has been directly linked to Earhart's plane. This discovery could support the theory that Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan did not crash in the Pacific Ocean, but landed on the atoll and spent the rest of their days as castaways.

TIGHAR is currently raising funds to travel to Nikumaroro to continue their investigations in hopes of finally solving the 77-year-old mystery.

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Mystery Solved? New Clue in the Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

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One of history's biggest mysteries may be one step closer to being solved. Researchers at The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) suggest that an aluminum fragment from aviatrix Amelia Earhart 's missing aircraft may have been identified.

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On the morning of July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, took off from Lae, New Guinea, on one of the last legs in their historic attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Their next destination was Howland Island in the central Pacific Ocean, some 2,500 miles away. A U.S. Coast Guard cutter, the Itasca, waited there to guide the world-famous aviator in for a landing on the tiny, uninhabited coral atoll.

But Earhart never arrived on Howland Island. Battling overcast skies, faulty radio transmissions and a rapidly diminishing fuel supply in her twin-engine Lockheed Electra plane, she and Noonan lost contact with the Itasca somewhere over the Pacific. Despite a search-and-rescue mission of unprecedented scale, including ships and planes from the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard scouring some 250,000 square miles of ocean, they were never found.

In its official report at the time, the Navy concluded that Earhart and Noonan had run out of fuel, crashed into the Pacific and drowned. A court order declared Earhart legally dead in January 1939, 18 months after she disappeared. From the beginning, however, debate has raged over what actually happened on July 2, 1937 and afterward. Several alternate theories have surfaced, and many millions of dollars have been spent searching for evidence that would reveal the truth of Earhart's fate.

The Castaway Theory

In her last radio transmission, made at 8:43 am local time on the morning she disappeared, Earhart reported flying "on the line 157 337...running north and south," a set of directional coordinates that describe a line running through Howland Island.

In 1989, an organization called the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) launched its first expedition to Nikumaroro, a remote Pacific atoll that is part of the Republic of Kiribati. TIGHAR and its director, Richard Gillespie, believe that when Earhart and Noonan couldn't find Howland Island, they continued south along the 157/337 line some 350 nautical miles and made an emergency landing on Nikumaroro (then called Gardner Island). According to this theory, they lived for a period of time as castaways on the tiny, uninhabited island, and eventually died there.

U.S. Navy planes flew over Gardner Island on July 9, 1937, a week after Earhart's disappearance, and saw no sign of Earhart, Noonan or the plane. But they did report seeing signs of recent habitation, though no one had lived on the atoll since 1892.

In 1940, British officials retrieved a partial human skeleton from a remote part of Nikumaroro; a physician subsequently measured the bones and concluded they came from a man. The bones themselves were later lost, but TIGHAR analyzed their measurements in 1998 and claimed that in fact they most likely belonged to a woman of European ancestry, of around Earhart's height (5-foot-7 to 5-foot-8). In 2018, a forensic analysis of the bone measurements conducted by anthropologists from the University of Tennessee (in cooperation with TIGHAR) showed that "the bones have more similarity to Earhart than to 99 percent of individuals in a large reference sample," according to a university statement at the time.

Taken Prisoner by the Japanese

A competing theory argues that when they failed to reach Howland Island, Earhart and Noonan were forced to land in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands. According to this theory, the Japanese captured Earhart and Noonan and took them to the island of Saipan, some 1,450 miles south of Tokyo, where they tortured them as presumed spies for the U.S. government. They later died in custody (possibly by execution).

Since the 1960s, the Japanese capture theory has been fueled by accounts from Marshall Islanders living at the time of an "American lady pilot" held in custody on Saipan in 1937, which they passed on to their friends and descendants. Some of the theory's advocates suggest that Earhart and Noonan were in fact U.S. spies, and their around-the-world mission was a cover-up for efforts to fly over and observe Japanese fortifications in the Pacific. At the time, more than four years before the Pearl Harbor attack, Japan was not yet the Americans' enemy in World War II.

Some have suggested that Earhart didn't die on Saipan after her capture, but was released and repatriated to the United States under an assumed name. Beginning in the 1970s, some proponents of this theory have argued that a New Jersey woman named Irene Bolam was in fact Earhart. Bolam herself vigorously denied these claims, calling them "a poorly documented hoax," but they persisted even long after her death in 1982.

Lingering Mystery

Since 1989, TIGHAR has made at least a dozen expeditions to Nikumaroro, turning up artifacts ranging from pieces of metal (possibly airplane parts) to a broken jar of freckle cream -but no conclusive proof that Earhart's plane landed there.

Amid ongoing controversy, spanning more than 80 years of debate among researchers and historians, the crash-and-sink theory remains the most widely accepted explanation of Earhart's fate. But over three expeditions since 2002, the deep-sea exploration company Nauticos has used sonar to scan the area off Howland Island near where Earhart's last radio message came from, covering nearly 2,000 square nautical miles without finding a trace of the wreckage of the Electra. Until that wreckage-or some other definitive piece of evidence-is found, the mystery surrounding Amelia Earhart's final flight will likely endure.

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On the morning of July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, took off from Lae, New Guinea, on one of the last legs in their historic attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Their next destination was Howland Island in the central Pacific Ocean, some 2,500 miles away. A U.S.

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Since her disappearance, there have been many theories as to what actually happened to her. As can be seen here, this is a photo of a newspaper headline of a story that says that men could hear her voice faintly asking for help. This is strange because as far as any evidence shows there weren't any distress calls from her plane so that added to the mystery of her disappearance.

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Amelia Earhart was an American pilot whose disappearance has mystified experts for decades. She was the first female aviator to fly across the Atlantic Ocean Solo