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Classroom English still meets Earhart as a first-woman story that ends in fog. The usable correction is the Itasca log, the 157–337 line and the 1939 legal death — not a captured-pilot serial.
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Amelia Earhart disappearance · paras 2
British and Australian coverage read the case as imperial-Pacific geography: Howland, Lae, a cutter, a missing civil aircraft on a route that touched Australian and British colonial airfields. Later ABC and BBC documentaries often frame Nikumaroro as the alternative English-language plot.
Amelia Earhart disappearance · paras 3
Classroom English still meets Earhart as a first-woman story that ends in fog. The usable correction is the Itasca log, the 157–337 line and the 1939 legal death — not a captured-pilot serial.
Amelia Earhart disappearance · When did Amelia Earhart disappear?
On 2 July 1937, during the Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island leg of an eastbound around-the-world attempt in Lockheed Electra NR16020, with navigator Fred Noonan. Itasca logged Earhart at about 08:43 Howland time saying she was on the line 157–337 and running on line. She reported they were flying up and down that line and could not see the island. Two-way contact was poor.
Amelia Earhart disappearance · Who was Fred Noonan?
A professional navigator, formerly of Pan American’s Pacific routes, hired for the world flight after the March 1937 Hawaii crash. He was in the Electra on 2 July. He has not been found. Fuel exhaustion and a ditching in the sea near Howland Island after the island was missed. That is the Navy and Coast Guard working conclusion from 1937. It has not been confirmed by a located wreck.
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On 2 July 1937, during the Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island leg of an eastbound around-the-world attempt in Lockheed Electra NR16020, with navigator Fred Noonan. Itasca logged Earhart at about 08:43 Howland time saying she was on the line 157–337 and running on line. She reported they were flying up and down that line and could not see the island. Two-way contact was poor.
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A professional navigator, formerly of Pan American’s Pacific routes, hired for the world flight after the March 1937 Hawaii crash. He was in the Electra on 2 July. He has not been found. Fuel exhaustion and a ditching in the sea near Howland Island after the island was missed. That is the Navy and Coast Guard working conclusion from 1937. It has not been confirmed by a located wreck.
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