World of Mysteries - In Search of Amelia Earhart
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Papua New Guinea, a remote island in the vast Pacific, so impenetrable is this jungle island that only the most adventurous travel here. This untamed land holds many secrets, it plays host to the greatest aviation mystery of all time. In 1937, Amelia Mary Earhart took off from Papua New Guinea, then vanished without a trace. Now her true fate is finally emerging, armed with new technology, experts are going back to the Pacific to find the queen of the skies.
International travel has never been easier, thousands of aircraft girdle the globe, guided to their destinations by satellite navigation systems. Pick any place on Earth and it’s only a plane ride away, it would never occur to us that our pilot might get lost, but in the pioneering days of aviation when Amelia Earhart was flying, getting lost was an occupational hazard. When she opened up the air routes we fly today she did so with little more than a compass to guide her.
In 1932 flying across the States was big news, especially when the pilot was a woman. Amelia Earhart’s daring and charm made her a media celebrity, people hungered for every detail of this remarkable woman’s life. When she became the first woman to fly the Atlantic, New York City gave her a hero’s welcome. In an age when most people had never seen an aeroplane, flying across an ocean was like going to the moon.
In 1937, Amelia announced her most ambitious project, to fly around the world. The first two thirds of the flight were successful, a month after she left the US Amelia reached the Pacific island of Papua New Guinea, California was only three days away. But she never made it.
“In Search of Amelia Earhart”, is a documentary, from the “World of Mysteries” series.
Earhart said that women needed to take chances and grow. She did--the last flight is tragic, but she did what she loved, that's what matters. Had courage, natural charisma--and a great smile. She's an American original. Unforgettable.
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I already knew about her life and accomplishments and her mysterious disappearance, the reason i watched this one hour documentary was because i thought they finally found her plane wreckage or something.
Im facinated with all this mystery im reading and seeing things I never thought possible from ghost ships to vanishing pilots im absolutely hooked im really enjoying this
Excellent. I watch it to the end.
Thanks for Sharing... I have always been interested in this mystery
His voice is so awesome!
So within 500 square miles of the island. What a breakthrough!
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It was very interesting to see that when Amelia Earhart was trying to find Howland Island she was using a pattern that rescue divers use to find lost divers in the water but on a much larger scale.
I just listened again to the interview with Betty Klenck, the teenager in Florida that heard Amelia’s distress call. As a retired criminal investigator I am convinced she really did hear Amelia’s calls for help. She still had her notebook from 70+ years ago filled with contemporary notes, song lyrics and drawings with Amelia’s distress call right in the middle of it. There are too many details that she wrote down for it to be fake. She wrote “Howland”, “157”, and her descriptions of Amelia and Fred fighting over the microphone with Fred wanting out of the plane because it was too hot is just not something anybody would think to fake. In fact, two men did fake hearing her call and it was described as a sterile call for help with none of the drama that Betty described. Amelia simply had to have landed on an island somewhere and survived for a period, it’s more logical to assume that than to assumes Betty’s notes were faked. Occam’s Razor. The simplest solution is likely the answer. Running out of gas and plunging into the ocean was the simplest answer until I heard Betty’s story. I’m not saying it was Gardner Island but again Betty wrote down “sounds like New York City” and the wreck of the Norwich City is there. That is spooky. Betty heard Amelia crying and heard her last words. Now that she has passed, I wonder if Betty found out the truth.
5 years after this vid and still no new findings
"two hours of fuel remaining". That's really not much fuel if you think about it. If they got lost, they could easily burn that up. They ran out of fuel and they likely died on impact. Plane ditching is usually not successful. The ocean is huge. It would be a miracle to find a trace. No more mystery.
I just think it's funny how the started off by say that they know where the plane is FOR A FACT. But by the end of the show they speculate where the plane is..
I am at a loss to understand all the vicious comments. What is it about Amelia Earhart that seems to attract the attention of the worst type of haters.
It was the greatest aviation mystery up to that time, but one can reason that she got lost and ran out of gas. It was soon surpassed by the disappearance of the Hawaii Clipper in 1938. A Martin 130 flying boat disappeared just after leaving Guam. Since it was a flying boat flying over water, it should have been able to land on water, but to this day, no trace has been found of the 14 people aboard.
The Electra is such a beautiful piece of equipment. It's poetry in motion even while standing still.
It is not fair to blame Earheart's navigator, Frederick J. Noonan (1893-1937). and his alleged drinking problem.
It seems highly likely that the storm at 5 hours was a major factor in the flight going way off course from the Howland Island target. Also, the Pacific is vast and Howland is a speck and coupled with technical problems, the flight appeared to be doomed from the start. It's possible that the trip was too much for Earhart and coupled with her exhaustion, it's not really surprising that they failed to land there. When the PNG pilot talks about how he would be very nervous about attempting a Howland island flight, it becomes clear how dangerous Earhart's attempt really was.
I’d say poor Amelia is lost forever