# Canonical recap data for Amelia Earhart Disappears (1937)
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slug: amelia-earhart-disappears
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1937/amelia-earhart-disappears"
title: Amelia Earhart Disappears
subtitle: The pioneering aviator vanished over the Pacific during her round-the-world flight attempt, becoming aviation's greatest unsolved mystery.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1937-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1937
decade: 1930
country:
name: United States
slug: united-states
summaryShort: 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 th
summaryLong: 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.
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heroImageCredit: Wikipedia · "Speculation on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan"
importance: 75
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculation_on_the_disappearance_of_Amelia_Earhart_and_Fred_Noonan"
  title: Amelia Earhart disappearance conspiracy theories
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- disaster
metaDescription: "Speculation on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan has continued since their disappearance in 1937. After the largest search and rescue attempt "
wikidataQid: Q125019190
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260617203942/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculation_on_the_disappearance_of_Amelia_Earhart_and_Fred_Noonan"
  capturedAt: 2026-06-17
  label: Amelia Earhart disappearance conspiracy theories
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculation_on_the_disappearance_of_Amelia_Earhart_and_Fred_Noonan"
