Amelia Earhart

                                                              Amelia Earhart

            Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. But her mysterious death is something that still cannot be explained. Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. She spent much of her childhood with her maternal grandparents. The reason for this was that her father had bonds with alcohol and her mother had to put the family on a firm financial foundation.

            In 1920, Amelia Earhart took a plane ride that made her want to learn to fly. Eight years later she received a call from Captain Hilton H. Railey claiming “Would you like to fly the Atlantic?”(Amelia Earhart). He was asking if she would like to be the first women to fly the Atlantic Ocean. Another flight she did was a solo trip from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California establishing her as the first women and person to fly across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Because of being the first women to fly across the Atlantic she won lot of honors, including the Gold Medal from the National Geographic Society, the Cross of the Knight of the Legion of Honor and the Distinguished Flying Cross.

     In 1937 Amelia commented “I have a feeling that there is just about one more good flight left in my system” (Amelia Earhart). In that year, she decided to do a flight around the world. On July 3, 1937 Amelia Earhart and her flight partner, Fred Noonan disappeared. Some people say that they ran out of fuel and landed on an uninhabited island called Gardner Island. They believe in this theory because in that island they found clothes and even a skeleton, but it can’t be proven if it was from Amelia Earhart or another person who lived there. Another theory is that Amelia and Noonan were flying when their plane crashed and both of them perished at sea. Many aviators support this theory because the plane was not fully fueled, and in any conditions they could arrive at Howland Island. Some people believed, the real reason of her disappearance was that she was a spy sent to the Marshall Islands and was captured by Japanese troops. Amelia Earhart was declared dead on January 5, 1939 even though she disappeared on June 2, 1937.

           

           

                                                              Works Cited  

“Amelia Earhart Biography”. TheBiography.com website, 12 Oct. 2016,                                                              http://www.biography.com/people/amelia-earhart-9283280

Szalay, Jessie “Amelia Earhart: Biography & facts about disappearance”. Live Science, 12 Oct.   

              2016, http://www.livescience.com/29363-amelia-earhart.html.