Earhart was trying to become the first woman to fly around the world in 1937. She and a navigator were headed a tiny coral atoll in the Pacific and were never seen again.
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It is one of the greatest enduring mysteries in aviation history: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart after she took off from Lae, New Guinea, in a Lockheed 10-E Electra on July 2, 1937.