What Actually Happened During Amelia Earhart's Journey?

[@AlexIsModded]

Fuel might have been low or run out, but if they were at 10k feet, and given how great Electra's systems were, they would have been able to glide to Howland Island. What people don't know about aircrafts is that they don't drop straight out of the sky when the engines give out or when fuel runs out. That leads me to believe that due to the winds and thick clouds, they were knocked off course and went the wrong way, then eventually crash landed in the ocean.

[@keezodenero4477]

Everybody know it don't just dropped out the sky 😂 tell us something we don t know

[@Jeudaos]

RIP Earhart. a TRUE dreamer and adventurer. wouldn't let pessimism or doubt enter the situation for even a moment. She was going to set that record for her fellow women, or die trying.

[@5925-p1b]

RIP Noonan too. He died with her, you know.

[@michaelreich4827]

But what is a woman?

[@nickcook7408]

A “woman” or “womb man” is a human with a womb. Womb men are typically weak, indecisive, lazy avoider of responsibility.

[@johnzeszut3170]

She was not the best of aviators having problems with takeoffs and navigation - this does not diminish her spirit of adventure.

[@giovannigiorgio2262]

she will enter Jahannam

[@sarantis1995]

This video gave me goosebumps, no less because the perfectly fitting tone of narration. Amazing job. I love the channel

[@seltonk5136]

He can't even pronounce the name. Gave me nausea not goosebumps

[@sarantis1995]

@@user-otzlixr why that hate? I obv dont have anything to earn by making such a comment. I just felt it like that. I was amazed by the story of Earhart's disappearance anyway and I just think the narration was perfectly on point.

[@seangraham9928]

It was NOT perfectly on point when he cannot even say her name right ! That shows how clueless you are too! That's not hateful; that's a fact!!

[@sarantis1995]

@@seangraham9928 was Amelia your great grandma and you get so offended? jesus, control your attitude.I dont even know what wrong with how he pronounced her name because to me its a foreign name, but that is irrelevant. I am saying that his tone fitted the context of the script, according to my tastes

[@lewis7315]

As a navigator, I know all too well how easy it is to make a small error to send you a long way off course. In that era with such primitive radio bearing navigation, finding an island can be a daunting task. With a malfunction radio, very difficult. Quite frankly, the overwhelming odds are that they were lost at sea...

[@johnandersons]

Just watched a show on this, when they first arrived in Africa, they were over 160 miles from where they meant to land. Makes you wonder if they were capable of finding a tiny dot in the middle of the ocean.

[@elvenkind6072]

It's a huge planet, and it's covered mostly by ocean, so statistically the pacific seem to be the place most likely to get lost in, if there is miscalculations like you mention.

[@sarahrose3451]

what do you think about the bones/compass etc,,, on the island?

[@lewis7315]

@@sarahrose3451 the remains of the airplane would have been found long ago. Even if they landed in the water next to the island, it would have had to have been really close... Also, aircraft flew over searched the island seeing nothing. If she had been there, she would have created a distress signal a triangle of wood, rocks, something...and she would have seen them ...

[@williamparker1085]

she was, by all accounts, not a very good pilot........brave certainly

[@benrochelle9301]

This USS Lexington wasn't an Essex class Aircraft Carrier, that was CV-16. This Lexington was CV-2, which sank in 1942.

[@ToubwaBiio]

A Famous Firstly Lady even not completely your trip,but Very proud of you to bring your self to my poor country 🇰🇮 that can show the 🌎how great memory occur on Nikumaroro Atoll.May Rest in Peace your beautiful Soul to an Eternal Life🙏

[@EmpressTori]

Small correction: the Lexington in 1937 was Lexington CV-2, a Lexington class aircraft carrier. The USS Lexington CV-16 (the one you showed) wasn't in service until 1943. They looked nothing alike

[@carolecarr5210]

If my memory serves me, wasn't the 1st Lexington lost at battle of Coral Sea ?

[@EmpressTori]

@@carolecarr5210 yes, may 6th, 1942

[@KyleCowden]

@@carolecarr5210ndeed. It was damaged so severely, the USN ultimately scuttled her. The extant Lexington ("The Gray Ghost") was laid down as the Cabot. Added in Edit: Where CV-2 was the first, and therefore the name of the class; CV-16 is one of the "Essex" class.

[@micnorton9487]

@@KyleCowden POINT BEING search aircraft were sortied from Lexington, CV 2,, and found nothing... God it's horrible thinking of those two people getting eaten by crabs,, she was too impulsive,, horrible tragedy...

[@KyleCowden]

@@micnorton9487 Agreed about the horror (however it ended) but I don't I was missing the point. I was responding to @EmpressTori wrote.

[@audionmusic2787]

Long story short? She radically overestimated her ability to navigate such distances over open ocean. The technology available required zero error.

[@aj-2savage896]

She overestimated everything. And Noonan was there to be the navigator, her only chance of getting there. The charts of the day had Howland Island mislocated by a fair piece.

[@amateur_football9751]

The third dude that abandoned the mission, probably saw her lack of skills or lack of care and decided to not go, probably out of decency did not say the truth

[@alanfowler6156]

Unfair. She had a navigator to do the navigating. Not her fault he was an alcoholic.

[@coryhoggatt7691]

She twice relied on her “gut feeling” instead of her navigator’s instructions. That Joe she landed in Ireland while trying to fly to France, and flew the wrong way up the coast of Africa before turning around at Noonan’s insistence.

[@harrygearhart4520]

True, but Fred was the best! Fred navigated 3/4 of the way around the world no problem. I believe they were close to Howland, just not close enough.

[@Istandby666]

I've been reading about Amelia Earhart since the early 80's. Year's ago a bunch of us reported an aircraft down on the outside of the island's. It was reported on another channel. Shortly there after KZbin channel debunk it and Google maps removed the shadow like aircraft below the ocean.

[@joshuabacon4564]

Her plane hit the Dome of Earth and went down

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Fantastic video keep it up you're doing amazing things

[@Austin_Schulz]

Hearing EARhart really grates my EARS

[@heftycat]

OMG SAME!!!

[@seltonk5136]

Downvote this moron. I've never thought I'd live long enough to hear somebody who thinks they are smart mispronounce Earhart

[@davidclark9150]

I agree. I've always heard it pronounced as Err-hart.

[@booniebuster4193]

The TIGHAR hypothesis that Earhart landed on what was then called Gardner Island is laughable. What is not being told is that three months after she disappeared a survey party led by H.E. Maude a British officer and his team landed on Gardner Island. Their purpose was to survey the island for the possibility of relocating natives from other overpopulated islands to Gardner. Not only did they survey Gardner, but they also visited all of the other islands in the area. They spent 3 days on Gardner exploring the entire island. In his report, he describes the island in detail. They dug three shallow wells which produced fairly good drinking water. It also stated that there was plenty of wild food on the island including rats, birds, Coconut Crabs, and fish. In addition, there were many Coconut trees with plenty of Coconuts to eat and drink the water. If airplane wreckage was on the island, it surely would have been in Maude's report and the Earhaft mystery would have been solved in 1937. The only mention of "Recent Habitation" was the remnants of Coconut plantation structures and trees that were planted in 1897. Gardner Island was in fact later inhabited by natives as part of the Pacific Island Settlement Scheme project. During World War II there was a U.S. military Loran radio station on the island. At no time was any airplane wreckage found! The island was finally abandoned in the 1960s.

[@csabaszep8162]

Nice video. Just as a sidenote, it's remarkable that the US Navy searched so furiously, that the Essex-class Lexington managed to travel through time and try to look for her. This was probably the CV-2 Lexington which sank during WW2.

[@jtcattanio]

An where is this information at??

[@csabaszep8162]

@@jtcattanio Around 7 minutes into the video, there are ships from the Coast Guard and the Navy with names listed. The Lexington has an "Essex-class" tag which I happened to notice.

[@jtcattanio]

@@csabaszep8162 and how did it travel through time?

[@csabaszep8162]

@@jtcattanio It was my attempt at making a joke. The USS Lexington in 1937 was a Lexington-class carrier with the hull number CV-2. She sank in WW2 and the US Navy gave the name to CV-12, an Essex-class carrier. So that one wasn't even built in 1937, hence I called it time travel. It's an easy mistake to make and one that isn't really important to the video. I just found it funny.

[@sarantis1995]

​@@jtcattanio with a time machine, duh

[@TetsuShima]

I like to think that Amelia is still outh there, happily living on a desert island, playing blackjack all day with Harold Holt and Michael Rockerfeller.

[@Bubajumba]

130 year old lone survivor, the tv program we need

[@tctheunbeliever]

@@Bubajumba The History Channel would do it. She was probably pulled through a wormhole or in time stasis or something. Maybe something to do with tachyons.

[@theMoerster]

@@tctheunbeliever In reality she will eventually be discovered alive in the Delta Quadrant in 2371 and settle there after a brief adventure on the starship Voyager.

[@tctheunbeliever]

@@theMoerster LOL I wasn't even thinking of Star Trek, I wasn't aware of that episode. I guess that plot isn't nutty enough for the History Channel anyway.

[@Cba409]

Yea shes still out there alright we call it shark poop.

[@liberalegypt]

The choice of the map's colours is confusing.. better to make oceans in blue not the opposite

[@Species5008]

Only confusing to those who don't have much for brain power.

[@liberalegypt]

@@Species5008 that's normal brain is comfort with real colours of the objects

[@ggregd]

It's AIR-hart not EAR-hart.

[@Kirb.PeanutButter]

Yes

[@KyleCowden]

CG voice. Or a "reader's accent". Not as annoying as some.

[@Gingersplaypen6786]

Air-hart

[@Super-J10]

It’s AI

[@jsimm4587]

Every time I hear it I’m Annoyed

[@nickbonavita1379]

There's another possibility and that is that Amelia and Fred were captured by the Japanese. There were island people who claimed seeing a tall white woman and man being held by the Japanese military. There's even some photos but they're not close enough and the woman has her back turned to the camera. Unfortunately by now all those people are dead. Hoping that someday someone finds her plane sitting on the bottom of the ocean to put an end to all this. .

[@gap9992]

That photo was published in a document before they disappeared so it is definitely not them. Plus the supposed plane being towed on a barge was not the Electra But there are the vague eye witness accounts of them being imprisoned, for those who care to believe them

[@thomasmcdaniel6264]

They are not telling you the truth about that photo.That IS the actual photo! It was placed loosely in a book. It wasn't a photo in that book.

[@brokenbridge6316]

Fun Fact: Their was a female pilot more skilled at flying than Earhart herself. Her name was Elizabeth Smith. But she's not as well known today because she didn't promote herself like Earhart did. And also she just faded away not disappeared suddenly.

[@rokano]

It’s always about the publicity and marketing

[@baligong3592]

Out of curiosity, Where can we find more info on Elizabeth Smith?

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@baligong3592---TBH I don't know. The only reason I found out about her at all was thanks to a short documentary I once saw on TV. And I mean regular TV. No computers involved.

[@nicofolkersma2535]

Are you sure you don't mean Elinor Smith, because Wiki has a boatload of Elizabeth Smith's, but none that fly. And Elinor, born 1911 broke a lot of records and flew until 1930, when she married and raised 4 kids.

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@nicofolkersma2535---Well I heard that it was Elizabeth Smith.

[@Name1person]

“Waiter waiter more Amelia Earhart please”🦀🦀🦀

[@femiewegbenroayomide8097]

💀💀💀💀

[@simpleman5688]

Numbskull jagoff

[@Kirb.PeanutButter]

💀 💀💀💀💀🥵

[@dougderby9454]

Chasing Earhart is a great pod series for anyone wanting to learn more about her. As well as many theories.

[@jazzdub4958]

One of the 20th century greatest ever icons and bravest souls. Briefly studied Earhart back in high school and her career and fateful ending has always fascinated me. A dreadful ending whichever way you like to think both Earhart and Noonan finished life out there in the vast space of nothingness. I'd hope they did crash land onto Gardner Is and waited it out amongst the ravenous crabs rather than sinking beneath the cold waves of the Pacific Ocean. Great narration.

[@carolecarr5210]

Amelia was my # 2 idol growing up. I'd hoped she would help me have courage. Definitely helped to have an idol or two to emulate to help build my character.

[@bonniemoerdyk9809]

My mother was extremely fond of her too. Mom was born in 1928 and Amelia was born in 1897, just one year before her mother, my grandma. Mom wanted to learn to fly so badly, but finances wouldn't allow for it, so the next best thing was to be a Stewardess, but that wasn't meant to be either, mom was only 5' 1", three inches shorter than the minimum. However, mom did lead a Girl Scout Pack of 40 girls, teaching us to swim (you should've seen her dive off the high dive!, get our hiking badge, by climbing the hills of southern Indiana, cooking and sewing, ect ect.ect. I miss my mom so much. Amelia Earhart sure WAS courageous! May I ask who your #1 idol was Carole?

[@whyworkwhenicanrap6830]

I’m your first

[@davidwell686]

"Get careless and danger will find you". Old merchant sailor told me when I sailed in the Pacific.

[@uniqueurl]

On air and water... Precision is the key. There is no fun

[@brokenbridge6316]

I wonder how different history would've been had Manning gone with Earhart on her fateful journey.

[@JesseLatourrette]

They probably would have made it, what a shame.

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@JesseLatourrette---My thoughts exactly.

[@murdockdacoon2055]

He was a smart man. Smart men don't follow foolish women. He obviously realized on the Westward attempt that what they were trying to do at that time was really risky. It's risky today. We have tons more navigation equipment to assist. Back then they had Dead Reckoning. That's a compass, a map, and time. That ain't shit when you are flying over featureless terrain like the largest fucking ocean on the planet. I'm sure the open ocean crossing to Hawaii on the first attempt made him realize they were fucking insane and had zero chance of a successful outcome given the lack of technology or nav aids back then. They didn't know what they didn't know back then......but Manning had a clue and he said no thanks. Smart man.

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@murdockdacoon2055---thanks for your input

[@davidahrens2841]

Believe me, it is very eerie to fly over water and see nothing but water in every direction. I really admire the pilots at the battle of Midway, taking off from an aircraft carrier completely surrounded by the sea and flying to sure death, let alone making it back to the aircraft carrier which may be at the bottom of the ocean!!! IMO, Amelia ran out of fuel, landed on the water, not crashed, but eventually she and the plane ended up at the floor of the ocean. Pretty brave to fly over 2,000 miles and try to find a 1 x 2 mile spot in the ocean with the primitive instruments of those days At least Lindbergh had enough fuel to make his 3,600 mile trip across the Atlantic ocean

[@redtomcat1725]

I read that she had dysentery and Fred had a drinking problem. Finally, they were unfamiliar with their radio equipment/direction finder. She was an adventurer. She set out poorly prepared!!

[@ChimozuFu]

No evidence for Noonans over-drinking. Only rumours started years afterward

[@neatstuff1988]

We know for certain that Airheart did not go down in the ocean and sank like the navy said. She continued to make radio calls for a week from a triangulated nickomorro. The problem was that the navy could not get to her before she expires. The reason is simple. The Itasca was out of fuel and could not make the day and a 1/2 trip to Nico. They had to wait for Aircraft Carrier to come from Hawaii to refuel them.

[@myparadiseing]

Is this a case of Earhart having more reach than grasp? It looks like it, from the fact that the 2nd dude bailed out seeing how reckless the whole enterprise was being handled at the beginning. The other angle is exhaustion: this was the last leg that Earhart and Noonan were doing and they were tired AF. Operating under lack of sleep is akin to being drunk leading to poor judgement and bad decision-making.

[@joshuabacon4564]

She hit the Dome of Earth and went down

[@frankievalentine6112]

The first sentence told me all I needed to know about this video.

[@luzimarmendessouzavisintin9466]

Good history. Thank you for the video.

[@cemreakgul4541]

Can you summarize?

[@timkim1234]

Thank you so much. I’m very interested in Amelia Earhart and the Pacific Ocean

[@keving8006]

Does anyone else get annoyed when narrators mispronounce common words/names? I've never heard anyone pronounce Amelia's last name as EER hart. It's AIR hart, like AIRplane, isn't it?

[@getoffenit7827]

Correction 1000 pounds of fuel is only about 150 gallons....she needed at least 1000 GALLONS

[@jrnumex9286]

narrator just reads i guess, not subject expert

[@Scratchingforcash]

People that never flew don’t realize that.

[@TimRiener]

Not to completely discount this work, but I have more than a few nit-picking issues with inaccuracies. I'll just point out one of them here: The narrator says that Amelia left Lae (New Guinea) on an "8 hour flight to Howland Island." That's not correct. It was planned as an ~20 hour flight (plus or minus). The graphics and discussion later covered by the narrator confirm that the flight plan was 20 hours, so not sure why the incorrect "8 hour" statement was made.

[@Miguel195211]

At the end of the day we don’t know exactly what happened to Earhart and Noonan. Earhart reminds me of Danica Patrick (race car driver), a lot of press because they were women, but both mediocre in their professional life.

[@joshuabacon4564]

Her plane hit the Dome of the Earth and went down

[@slowery43]

go away, you're not funny at all@@joshuabacon4564

[@SlabFor1]

@@joshuabacon4564 are you saying that she went to the center of the earth?

[@joshuabacon4564]

@@SlabFor1 no her plane hit the Blue Ice Dome it bounced off

[@mauriciogonzalez3334]

Coconut crabs when they are informed that Amelia Earhart will be served at the function: 🦀🕺🦀

[@Species5008]

Tell me princess, did your parents have ANY children who lived?

[@Cba409]

Simple. She was in over her head.

[@olliederoche7289]

Amazing video , man. Seriously

[@Jodyrides]

they crash landed near a tiny sandbar island , nothing more than a sand pile no larger than a football field. They had to sleep sometime. The crabs ate them.. they found clue hearts on one of these tiny islands that could be parts from their plane and one of their shoes.. The ocean took the plane away. less than 5% of the worlds oceans have been explored.. they will probably never find the plane .they can’t even find that large airliner that disappeared about 10 years ago, and they have a good idea of where that one went down.. I saw this theory on a television show about 10 years ago ..to me at least, it makes the most sense. They saw a small island, they landed on the water and went to the island, and the crabs got them.. another possibility is, they actually did rescue them, but it’s a convenient excuse for governments to be in places they aren’t welcome, if they claim they’re looking for her plane still.. good cover story..

[@michlnyc]

I don’t understand if one theory is they were castaways on the island, didn’t the search parties check? That part doesn’t make sense.

[@MrChopsticktech]

Agreed! Send a few ships out there to search for them but don't search the island.

[@wno1043]

She was my 7th cousin. Her mother was an Otis.

[@coryhoggatt7691]

There are a few details you probably didn’t have time for but make all the difference in how this story must have ended. Her radios used two frequencies that were not used by anyone outside the continental US (for which she got special permission). Transmissions on those frequencies were heard by the Itasca, in a woman’s voice. The triangulation you mentioned was done by Pam Am listening stations in the Pacific whose whole purpose was to fix the positions of their passenger planes flying there. They showed a location near Gardner Island. More importantly, they could not have heard transmissions on her specific frequencies if the aircraft was at the bottom of the ocean. She crash landed on Gardner Island, Noonan was injured and passed away soon after, she lived for a period of weeks or months as a castaway and the plane was swept over the edge of the reef before anyone could find it. Open and shut case

[@soulaphilippe8234]

This video is interesting, but Amelia only lived in Nikumaroro for a week or less. So a great deal of effort and research went into following in the footsteps of a dozen or so meals in 1937. Radio activity on the frequency used by Amelia was noted by professional radio operators who plotted the direction of the messages, which all converged on Nikumaroro. Then various private listeners heard harmonics on different frequencies, but they heard Ameiia "s voice and her distress messages. And the messages are all consistent: she's on a desert island, not marked on the charts, Fred Noonan is in a serious condition, they've run out of water. There's no need to look for further proof, especially as Gallagher is sure he's found her skeleton and is sure she died of thirst. That's more than enough. Among the objects found is even a jar of mercury cream, a freckle remover, the brand Amelia used... All clear, no need to spend hours looking for more clues. As for the plane, like all pilots Amelia tried to tie it down to the flat rocky reef, but all she had were light cords and brass wire. She had landed at the end of the low tides but just after her landing the tidal coefficients rose and 4 or 5 days later her plane broke loose and floated away. After several kilometers, it began to sink, and when it reached a depth of 50 meters, its tanks crashed and ruptured. The plane's diving speed accelerated, and it began to glide underwater, covering several more kilometers. If you look further, you'll get a good echo and find the whole plane. See my website : ameliaearhart.free.fr

[@nolancarte6015]

Who is the narrator? He sounds so familiar, yet I can't recall where else I have heard this guy from

[@RockReynolds]

Amelia was a well-deserved Hero, but her final Flight Plan had some "Challenges", that I would not have taken. --- In all of the early legs of Amelia's Flight Plan, even a 60-mile error would find a Continent. --- But what was to be the Second Last leg, the leg in which Amelia disappeared, had no such safety net. --- If I had been in Amelia's position, I would have insisted on a "Northern Track", back to North America, NOT ACROSS THE PACIFIC, to a TINY LITTLE ISLAND, thousands of miles away. On that last leg, most of the flying was done at Night. --- There WERE NO NAVAIDS over the Ocean back then. When totally over water, virtually ALL NAVIGATION had to be "Celestial". ACTUAL POSITIONS are REQUIRED to determine "Wind Effect", and even then, WINDS CAN CHANGE. --- The REASON for choosing "Night Navigation", is obvious to Navigators. --- When a "Celestial Shot" is taken on a body, a Navigator can only render a SINGLE "Line of Position". The Navigator knows that his actual position is SOMEWHERE on that line, but does not know where. --- During "Night Navigation", Navigators have books to take "Celestial Shots" on MULTIPLE STARS (usually three), usually 4-minutes apart, to render a REASONABLY ACCURATE ACTUAL POSITION, with THREE "Lines of Position", accurate enough to find a small island in the middle of the ocean. --- But Amelia required "Day" to find the Island! --- Thus a significant portion, the LAST portion, of Amelia's flight, only had the "Sun", and the "Line of Position" from the Sun could only determine East/West Position (called "Speed Line"), and COULD NOT DETERMINE North/South Position (called "Course Line"). --- In other words, during the very last part of the planned flight, Amelia had ZERO NAVIGATION INDICATORS, to tell if Amelia was on course. My take: The Leg on which Amelia disappeared, was WAY TOO DANGEROUS. --- Last portion of the leg, had NO COURSE indicator. --- Even the most optimistic of plans, assumes "NO CLOUDS", a very dangerous assumption. --- Amelia required "Night" for Navigation, but required "Day" for finding the Island. --- CONCLUSION: Amelia ran out of fuel over the great big ocean and will never be found. RIP. I highly doubt the legitimacy of "aircraft wreckage" claims. Not "impossible", but highly "improbable". "Fake wreckage" is much more believable. Rock Reynolds (AKA: Roger Reynard)

[@FrankandUpfront]

They eloped, and ran away from their lives, relatives, and their respective spouses, and lived out the rest of their days being together.

[@satyagrahaa]

She traveled to the Delta-Quadrant where she was later found by the crew of the USS Voyager

[@Mark16v15]

Here's what happened. Pilots and navigators everywhere quickly learned you can get away with minimal navigation aids or survival equipment over land, but over the sea long distances, that is a totally different story. Amelia was pioneer on what NOT to do when flying over long stretches of ocean. She shouldn't be faulted. There was very little such long distance aviation over the sea at that time for her to learn lessons about. A lot of the stuff that is now standard that we take for granted when it comes to aviation came about from some earlier pilot's mishap.

[@aliesterus1.023]

Well damn. Sometimes it really sucks to be the first/one of the first, huh?

[@slowery43]

you have zero proof of any of your bogus claims yet that doesn't stop you from pretending to be an expert here

[@Mark16v15]

@@slowery43 I'm not going to do your homework for you. And you won't do it because it will show that YOU are the one who is bogus.

[@ellanjanjayikum9025]

Informative 💕💕💕

[@gregorylyon1004]

Judging by the radio communications from Amelia Earhart's plane. She never made it to Howland island. Her plane ran out of fuel and crashed over open ocean water. She probably used up too much fuel in the adverse weather conditions and had to fly at a higher altitude. Which would explain why she ran low on fuel. I believe that Amelia should have used an Amphibious airplane for this leg of the journey. That way she could land on open water and be rescued by boat

[@firebird6522]

The mystery was solved in the late 1990s. Guess you never got wind of it. The U.S.S. Voyager found both Earhart and Noonan in suspended animation on a planet in the Delta Quadrant. Both were revived and are alive in the 23rd century.

[@lonnybush5612]

So true! I saw that on TV too!😊

[@Scratchingforcash]

I have always believed that she may have had to dump the airplane and somehow she made it to a small island, which there were thousands of where they thought she went down. The particular plane she was on would’ve given her much gliding time to figure out she was going down and time to get her emergency pack together possibly including a small raft. She probably didn’t die on the plane crash but lived a long life on a lonely island.

[@mp3345]

This video is cool you guys should make a mystery channel

[@elhues7528]

Finally a video without a swastika in the thumbnail!

[@Vexryx]

bruh my stupid ass fell asleep at 8:59

[@harrybalsak916]

Fred Noonan was an outstanding Navigator but Earhardt was actually an average at best, or even below average, pilot. She had several mishaps before this fateful flight. The reality of the matter is that 87 years after that fateful flight it is very unlikely that anyone will ever definitively solve the mystery of what happened to her and Noonan.

[@curtisberard7831]

Some say she was also gathering intelligence on the Japanese expansions, crashed, was captured and subsequently executed as a spy.

[@joshuabacon4564]

Her plane hit the Dome of Earth and her plane went Down

[@snafubar5491]

40 or so years ago I heard stories about some native CHamrru on Saipan that talked about Earhart and Noonan being kept on the Island until the US invaded when they were taken into the jungle and killed. Also there is a story floating around that some Marines found the wreck of the Electra on the airfield at Garapan. Supposedly after they reported it, a armed detail showed up, boxed the wreckage up, and shipped it off the Island.

[@Rockyxplore]

@@snafubar5491 I heard both of those theories also ....especially the first one ! ---Often !

[@snafubar5491]

@@Rockyxplore.........Did you hear them firsthand??? Many decades ago I talked with some locals who were there. First two White people they had ever saw were the man and woman kept in the Garapan jail. They gave plenty of other details. Were their stories true??? Very possible. Probably never know. Anyone that was there then are most likely dead by now.

[@johnandersons]

@@joshuabacon4564 you keep posting this answer like saying it over and over makes it true. You are aware that countless other planes have flown over that ocean at much higher altitudes since then and not one has hit a dome? I can only hope for your families sake that you are only joking.

[@micahistory]

this is really interesting. I never heard of any of these theories before

[@Pinkleopard-qy4nt]

When I was 7 my school was named Amelia Earhart

[@thomasmcdaniel6264]

Try researching the Saipan and Japanese theory. You will have better results because there's much more evidence.👍😉

[@jf_sebastian8387]

I doubt they where going to Howland, too small an island to land an Electra on. It was just a ruse for the Japanese.

[@johnandersons]

Anything is possible, you just need to provide evidence. Seems a lot of trouble to go through for just doing that.

[@jf_sebastian8387]

@@johnandersons It would be difficult for you. Not for thinking minds.

[@Dracopol]

You mispronounced Earhart all through. The first vowel is like "ea" as in Bread.

[@seltonk5136]

No it isn't. You are both dolts. It's Air-hart

[@Oxurus]

@@seltonk5136 Tell me, how do you pronounce the "ea" in bread?

[@emrecanarduc4378]

@@Oxurus like in the word Ear

[@Oxurus]

@@emrecanarduc4378 Then you're pronouncing bread wrong lol

[@seltonk5136]

@@Oxurusare you clinically retarded? AIR- hart. I don't pronounce bread BrAID.

[@getoffenit7827]

Further...she couldnt see ITASCA because she wasnt anywhere near Itasca or Howland island

[@stevemar7952]

I understand the Itasca was producing smoke that she didn't see either.

[@getoffenit7827]

@@stevemar7952 thats what i read,and according to itasca the skies were ckear...if Amelia had dropped to 1000ft she wouldve been able to see the smoke from far away

[@daveware4117]

Well made video

[@indridcold8433]

The Lockheed Electra is one of the most beautiful aeroplanes ever made.

[@joseph78e4n6]

" Where is AMELIA "

[@CandyGirl44]

Begs the question why the navy didn't investigate the island

[@MrChopsticktech]

I wonder if they had life jackets and/or a survival raft.

[@mikesands4681]

I believe a woman circumnavigated the globe around 1928 as a passenger of a zeppelin, 8 years before Earhart's journey in a aeroplane. She was attempting to set the record as a pilot.

[@radiotruck8135]

The repeated message was repeated, its in the logs. You say it wasnt repeated. They did have enough fuel to land on Winslow reef. The water there appeared to be 1 foot deep, But it was actually knee deep, due to water lense refraction. Their last recorded radio transmission was on day 9. Its in tbe logbooks. I have a copy. On day 11, the mirror reflection at sunset was seen from Winslow direction, From Howland island. It is logged. The 10pm fire was seen from same direction .that was logged. The kite was in the liferaft, and the mirror came from her makeup kit.

[@maxaguero2984]

she gave her position 157 337 it was the meridiano over nikumaroro ,.. she did landed but she didnt survive and the coast guard were unable to find them,.. with a wider range of search ..the probrably did

[@bigboinelly8046]

Them coconut crabs had a pleasant suprise

[@fredjensen1683]

Gardiner island was 400- miles south of her last location. The plane was already found off howland island.

[@paganphil100]

@fredjensen1683: Nobody knows her last location and her plane has never been found so you're wrong on both counts.

[@caledonia95chillinginscotland]

Amelia is the name of my kitten also

[@mistplayzop]

What is the music in the background of the video at the start, I hear it often but can never find anyone leaving it in the description.

[@SlickArmor]

Hearing Ear-hart was killing my ears. 👂 🙉

[@novu16]

they were in love and this was all a facade. they landed safely and got rid of the evidence. lived happily ever after.

[@fredjensen1683]

Predicted earhart aircraft location 0 deg 10 min north 175.55 west 50 miles east from howland island 40 miles east of baker island actual sonar image of earhart plane 100 miles offhowland island

[@SkunkMonkey991]

My buddy has an original photo of her, Noonan and the plane fueling up. His grandfather took it while in the Army. They disappeared a few days later.

[@slowery43]

wow that is so amazingly not at all interesting in any way.

[@lcehotel]

@@slowery43lmfao miserable ass goober😭

[@guillermobetancourt1006]

Yall made a little mistake, the USS Lexington wasn’t a Essex class, but it’s own class carrier, the Lexington class.

[@getevennow]

Maybe AI and high speed computers will eventually solve the mystery !

[@showme6448]

What happened, simple...she has problem she couldn't resolve. She then crashed, she either died in impact or shortly there after. We never could find her, called off the search. Now people keep wanting to know what happened. Start reading this over again, I am sure you will find the answer.

[@williamsolvang5912]

It's pronounced Air heart. Was unable to watch this vid.

[@darkestalmond]

I think he is pronouncing it that way for comments...it worked 😂😂😂

[@nimueh4298]

The most plausible explanation is she was off course ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean.

[@joshuabacon4564]

Her plane hit the Dome of Earth and went down

[@nimueh4298]

@@joshuabacon4564 Brilliant !!!!!!

[@mikesmith-po8nd]

Joshua Bacon, do you have to copy and paste the same (stupid) comment in every thread?

[@brogan-zw4of]

thats what i think too

[@oxlynz7328]

Wrong USS Lexington mate

[@jrnumex9286]

"for a 8 hour tour, the weather started was getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed........

[@djpenton779]

The narrator should have taken the time to look up the pronunciation of Earhart.

[@Nada_1911-d9q]

Did they ever search the water at all to see if the aircraft had sank?

[@jtgd]

Probably, but the pacific is the largest ocean. It’s like searching the entirety of the Americas for one small plane

[@fifa4lifeunknow795]

@@jtgd the water on the island they should check that tho

[@coryhoggatt7691]

The guy who found the Titanic has done one search without finding anything. At this point the only thing left to find might be the engines, which are probably buried in sand at the bottom.

[@Michael-uu9nv]

Watch unsolved mysteries season three they talked about Amelia they spoke to somebody who knows what really did happen to her. She said she saw her shot and buried

[@mickeysmiths]

I've had a close look at this incident & it is my humble opinion the plane is to the north north west of Howland Island, perhaps within 100km (60 miles). The plane is not to the south of Howland Island, as a lot of pundits suggest, & it certainly did not land on the exposed reef platform of Gardner Island everyone suggests it reached. That idea is preposterous! For 2 million US a dedicated search using Ocean Infinity technology would probably find it within 20 days (unless the whole thing has since been silted over)..

[@joyceleadbetter2600]

Agree, AA FN decided to abandon Howland Island, fly to Tarawa flying downwind to save fuel and gain speed. Ditched east of the Gilbert islands.

[@williamleadbetter9686]

In her 1st attempt the one she crashed on take off she was headed in the "right" direction. That is starting from the west coast heading east where she would of had tail wind instead of a head wind the whole way. Why she reversed it is part of the enduring mystery, as taking off a small island and heading toward a bigger one with a tailwind makes much more sence. She knew that but......FOIA?!

[@dariuscanuto]

Amelia Earhart is an aviator and a test pilot.🎉

[@cityslick007]

How can a radio transmission be delayed? Was there a relay between the two?

[@paganphil100]

@cityslick007: I think he means the timing of her transmission was delayed......she had arranged to transmit at certain times but she was late on this occasion.

[@briankleinschmidt3664]

Well, she took off and never landed. Obviously, she just flew straight off into heaven. You can't dispute science.

[@Psychiatrick]

Close ... flat earth ... the flew off the earth ... like all other missing plains ....

[@Jameswebbtelescope7484]

Honestly, I agree with this possibility. Though I am hoping they could search again

[@slowery43]

honestly, not a sole cares waht you agree with... nobody ows you, you have zero credibility, and lastly we truly don't care waht you believe

[@BSU55]

4 miles from Howland island !

[@AteAndLeftNoCrumbss]

Iam no expert on flying planes or such, but in the map of the video their is an island like on top of Earhart’s plane, why didn’t she land on them

[@kyle47922]

I always wanted to know what happened to Amela Earheart?

[@orsoncart802]

Sad.

[@rob5944]

Why wasn't the island searched at the time????