19371776 Club
Earhart and Noonan vanish; last words place them on a line of position, nowhere near Howland
At 7:58 a.m. she cannot hear the Itasca and asks for voice signals; a final transmission comes in, then silence over 2,556 miles of open Pacific.
By July 1937, Amelia Earhart had already crossed the Atlantic solo and set a string of aviation records. She needed one more first to complete the picture: a flight around the world along the equator, the longest route ever attempted at 29,000 miles. On July 2, she and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Lae, New Guinea, bound for tiny Howland Island, 2,556 miles away. Her last confirmed radio message came at 7:58 am, when she reported she could not hear the Itasca and asked for voice signals so she could try to take a bearing; a final transmission shortly after indicated she and Noonan were flying along a line of position of 157–337 degrees. Neither the Electra nor its occupants were ever found…
