Amelia Earhart Plane Support provided by: July 2, 1937:
newspapers all over the world report the same event: Amelia
Earhart's airplane disappears over the pacific. The disaster and
presumed death of the beloved 39 year-old heroine gripped the
public. For decades historians have debated how and where the
aviator disappeared. Both scientific and more fanciful theories
abound: some surmise she landed on uninhabited Gardner Island.
Others suggest she was captured and executed by the Japanese.
Less scrutinized is an accident she had four months earlier,
during take-off for her around-the-world flight. Did that crash
somehow contribute to Earhart's disappearance? Over seventy
years later, History Detectives investigates whether a fragment
of metal is from the missing plane. - Also in Season 7 Kahlil
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