Amelia Earhart's Circumnavigation Attempt
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Share- Friday, May 21, 1937
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The second attempt began with an unpublicized flight from Oakland to Miami, Florida. The flight's opposite direction was partly the result of changes in global wind and weather patterns along the planned route since the earlier attempt. Fred Noonan was Earhart's only crew member for the second flight. -
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- Tuesday, June 1, 1937
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After arriving in Miami, Earhart publicly announced her plans to circumnavigate the globe. They departed Miami on June 1st headed to San Juan Puerto Rico. -
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- Wednesday, June 2, 1937
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Caripito, Venezuela (10:18 am)
Pan American Airways reported that 'Amelia Earhart landed at Capripito, Venezuela, at 10:18 a.m., (Eastern Standard Time) after a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was expected that she and her navigator, Capt. Fred J. Noonan, would remain overnight in the Standard Oil company's guest house there and take off tomorrow for Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana. From there, she probably would fly to Natal by way of Uara, Brazil. The aviatrix is flying around the world as near the equator as practicable, making the 28,000-mile journey for pleasure.' - Thursday, June 3, 1937
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Paramaribo, Suriname (12:50 am)
'Amelia Earhart landed here today at 12:50 a.m. (10:50 a.m. CST) on the third leg of her round-the-world flight. The American woman flier set her heavy plane safely down after a flight of five hours and two minutes from Caripito, Venezuela. She was expected to stay here until some time tomorrow.' - Saturday, June 5, 1937
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'Amelia Earhart postponed her take-off here today to have her big round-the-world monoplane inspected. She probably will remain over at least until tomorrow at this northeast Brazil port, 287 miles from Natal. After Natal, her goal will be Daka, Senegal, 1,900 miles across the Atlantic.' - Monday, June 7, 1937
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Natal, Brazil (12:16 am)
'Amelia Earhart headed over the South Atlantic in a light rain today for Dakar, Senegal, her goal on the African continent in her intended flight around the world. She left here on the 1,900 mile flight at 12:16 a. m. Central Standard Time and radioed more than four hours later that everything is going fine.' - Tuesday, June 8, 1937
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'Miss Earhart's time of 13 hours and 22 minutes for the 1,900 miles from Natal, Brazil, to Saint Louis, Senegal... apparently was a record for the eastward South Atlantic crossing. The westward mark of 12 hours and 5 minutes also is held by a woman, Maryse Bastie. Miss Earhart flew through rain most of the way across the ocean, she said. The visibility at nightfall was bad and her wireless worked poorly.' -
'Amelia Earhart flew here today from St. Louis, capital of Senegal, for an easier take-off on the next leg of her flight around the world. The slim American flier laid up her plane here for repairs. She said it would be tomorrow or Thursday before she could hop off across Africa.' -
- Friday, June 11, 1937
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Ndjamena, Chad (Ft. Lamy) (6:55 am)
'Amelia Earhart landed here today to complete a 1,000-mile leg of her flight around the world. She set her twin-engined monoplane down at 6:55 a.m. (C.S.T.) after flying from Gao over equatorial Africa.' - Saturday, June 12, 1937
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'Amelia Earhart, flying around the world, arrived here late today after a flight from Fort Lamy French equatorial Africa. She expected to leave for Khartoum, also in the Sudan, at 5:30 a.m. local time Sunday (9:30 p.m. Saturday, Central Standard Time). Miss Earhart landed here following a flight of about 900 miles from Fort Lamy. It is about 500 miles farther northeast to Khartoum. She got a late start this morning, due to the necessity of adjusting the shock absorbers on her plan.[sic] They were damaged when she landed at Forty Lamy. She had planned originally to fly from Fort Lamy to Khartoum in one hop.' -
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- Tuesday, June 15, 1937
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'Amelia Earhart arrived here tonight, completing a long and interrupted flight from Massawa, Eritrea, on her just for fun aerial flight around the world. She had been reported for more than 29 hours on a leg of her flight that lay over Arabian desert and mountains and for about 1,000 miles across the Arabian sea. Miss Earhart sad she flew from Assab, Eritrea, on the African coast of the Red sea just north of the Gulf of Aden, to Karachi, on the Inrwan coast of the Arabian sea, in one hop. The airline distance is approximately 1,400 miles.' - Thursday, June 17, 1937
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'Amelia Earhart landed her round-the-world plane at DumDum airdrome here today after a 1,350 mile hope across Indian from Karachi. Miss Earhart took off from Karachi at 7:25 a.m. Karachi time (7:55 p.m. C.S.T. Wednesday). The flier, who is making a leisurely flight around the world just for fun, said she intended to take off shortly after dawn Friday for Bangkok, capital of Siam. If she adheres to her planned itinerary, she will go from Bangkok, to Darwin, Australia, by way of Singapore, then Batavia, Dutch East Indies, and Surabaya, Java, before starting across the Pacific.' - Friday, June 18, 1937
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Sittwe (Akyab), Burma (12:34 pm)
'Amelia Earhart started another leg of her round-the-world flight today after arriving from Calcutta, but bad weather forced her to return to Akyab. She first landed her twin-motored monoplane at 12:34 p.m. (12:04 a.m. C.S.T.) after a 400-mile flight across the Bay of Bengal, and took off immediately in an effort to reach Bangkok, Siam. She was back in Akyab within two hours. The flyer said she expects to start again for Bangkok early Saturday if the weather is favorable.' -
Yangon (Rangoon), Burma (6:35 am)
'Amelia Earhart reached Rangoon today after a 300-mile flight from Akyab on her leisurely globe-circling journey. She landed her monoplane at 6:35 a.m. Greenwich time (12:35 a.m. C.S.T.) after a trip of two hours 53 minutes Her next destination was Bangkok, Siam, 400 miles southeast of Rangoon.' -
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- Monday, June 21, 1937
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Bandung, Indonesia (10:17 am)
'Amelia Earhart decided today to take a three day rest and have her plane overhauled before taking off on the next leg of her flight around the world. She landed at Bandoeng at 10:17 a.m. today (10:37 p.m. E.S.T.) after a flight from Singapore over the Java sea and a part of mountainous Java. After her plane is checked she plans to take off for Darwin, Australia.' -
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- Friday, July 2, 1937
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Lae, Papua New Guinea (12:00 am)
On July 2, 1937 (midnight GMT) Earhart and Noonan took off from Lae in the heavily loaded Electra. Their intended destination was Howland Island, a flat sliver of land 6,500 ft (2,000 m) long and 1,600 ft wide, 10 feet high and 2,556 miles away. -
Their last known position report was near the Nukumanu Islands, about 800 miles into the flight. The United States Coast Guard cutter Itasca was on station at Howland, assigned to communicate with Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E and guide them to the island once they arrived in the vicinity. -
In her last known transmission at 8:43 a.m. Earhart broadcast *We are on the line 157 337. We will repeat this message. We will repeat this on 6210 kilocycles. Wait.* However, a few moments later she was back on the same frequency (3105 kHz) with a transmission which was logged as a questionable: *We are running on line north and south.* Earhart's transmissions seemed to indicate she and Noonan believed they had reached Howland's charted position, which was incorrect by about five nautical miles. -
- Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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A tiny bone fragment could provide crucial information about the fate of Amelia Earhart, the legendary pilot who disappeared 73 years ago while flying over the Pacific Ocean in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator.
Collected on Nikumaroro, an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, the bone has raised the interest of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating the Earhart mystery, as it may be from a human finger.
The phalax was found together with other artifacts during a month-long expedition last June to the tiny coral atoll believed to be Earhart's final resting place. -
- total distance: 24,211 miles (38.964 km)
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