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title: "Amelia Earhart Disappears"
year: 1937
country: "United States"
canonical: "https://recap.at/1937/amelia-earhart-disappears"
slug: "amelia-earhart-disappears"
recapType: "global_event"
startDate: "1937-01-01"
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# Amelia Earhart Disappears

> The pioneering aviator vanished over the Pacific during her round-the-world flight attempt, becoming aviation's greatest unsolved mystery.

## Summary

Speculation on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan has continued since their disappearance in 1937. After the largest search and rescue attempt in history up to that time, the U.S. Navy concluded that Earhart and Noonan ditched at sea after their plane ran out of fuel; this "crash and sink theory" is the most widely accepted explanation. However, several alternative hypotheses have been considered.

## Sources

- [Amelia Earhart disappearance conspiracy theories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculation_on_the_disappearance_of_Amelia_Earhart_and_Fred_Noonan) - Wikipedia

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