By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has ordered the declassification and public release of all government records about aviator Amelia Earhart , who vanished in 1937 during an attempt to fly around the world.

Trump said it’s an “interesting story” that has “captivated millions.” He said people have asked him whether he’d consider declassifying and making public everything the government has on her.

FILE – Amelia Earhart leaves Londonderry, Northern Ireland for London, File May 22, 1932. (AP Photo/Sidney Maledine, File)

“She was an Aviation Pioneer, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and achieved many other Aviation ‘firsts,’” he wrote on his social media site. “She disappeared in the South Pacif

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