| When
Amelia Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937, she was flying the longest leg of her
around-the-world flight and was only days away from completing her journey. Her plane was
never found, and for more than sixty years rumors have persisted about what happened to
her. Now, with the recent discovery of long-lost radio messages from Earhart's final flight, we can say with confidence that she ran out of gas just short of her destination of Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean. From the beginning... read more |