Amelia Earhart: Soaring into Infamy Amelia Mary Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937. She was attempting to fly around the world at the equator. She would have been the first person to do so. Amelia Earhart was one of the most influential women of the 1930’s through her Achievements, how she learned to fly, and her stunning disappearance. Amelia Earhart had been enthused with airplanes since she was a young girl. Amelia Earhart was ¨admired for her achievements in aviation and for her adventurous nature, [she] became a well-known personality during the 1920s and 1930s. She loved daredevil stunts, such as jumping off a metal tower with a parachute and piloting a one-person submarine. Her brief career was filled with record-setting flights, …show more content…
Reportedly, “they took off on June 1, 1937, and headed for Brazil” (“Amelia Earhart”). This explains where she intended to go on that fateful mission. Supposedly, “Earhart and Noonan never reached Howland Island, and neither they nor their plane were ever found. It is possible that they simply missed the island, ran out of fuel, and crashed into the ocean. Another theory holds that part of Earhart's mission was to spy on the Japanese-held islands in the Pacific. According to this premise, the Japanese were aware of her mission and intercepted her plane, taking her captive; in fact, a recent biography of Earhart claims that evidence supports this conclusion and therefore solves the mystery of her disappearance. Most experts have remained unconvinced, however, saying there is no real proof of the fate of Earhart because her plane has never been found. In 1992 investigators on Nikumaroro—a small atoll, or coral island, south of Howland—discovered a shoe and a metal plate that might have been left by Earhart and Noonan. But to this day no one knows for certain what happened to these pioneering aviators” (“Amelia Earhart”). This elaborates on her brilliant, yet dangerous, flight plan. It is assumed that she dies when “her plane was lost on the flight between New Guinea and Howland Island. In 1992, a search party reported finding remnants of Earhart's plane on Nikumaroro (formerly Gardner Island), Kiribati,