DisappearanceUnsolved
The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Pacific Ocean, United StatesJuly 2, 1937
On July 2, 1937, aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during an attempted circumnavigation of the globe. Their plane was never found. Theories range from crashing into the ocean to landing on a remote island and dying as castaways. It remains one of aviation's greatest unsolved mysteries.