#amelia-earhart

#amelia-earhart

"I am ordering my Administration to declassify and release all Government Records related to Amelia Earhart, her final trip, and everything else about her," President Donald Trump announced recently on Truth Social, pulling one of America's most enduring legends into the political present. For more than eight decades, Earhart's 1937 disappearance has been fertile ground for speculation: pulp stories, Hollywood films, and best-selling books that turned a tragic accident into lurid melodrama or unsolved mystery.

I have been asked by many people about the life and times of Amelia Earhart, such an interesting story, and would I consider declassifying and releasing everything about her, in particular, her last, fatal flight! She was an Aviation Pioneer, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and achieved many other Aviation firsts. She disappeared in the South Pacific while trying to become the first woman to fly around the World.

The legendary aviator and her navigator, Fred Noonan, set out from Lae in New Guinea in July 1937 as part of her bid to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world. They were never seen again and, despite the most extensive sea and air search in American history up to that point, no trace has ever been found of Earhart or her Lockheed Electra plane.