Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished while flying from New Guinea to Howland Island as part of her attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world. The Navy searched for her and Noonan, but found no trace of them. The U.S. government’s official position has been that Earhart and Noonan went down with their plane. She was declared legally dead in 1939.

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