Why Are We Still So Fascinated By Amelia Earhart?

On July 2, 1937 distress signals were sent from Amelia Earhart’s aircraft. She had almost made it to Howland Island, an uninhabited lock of land halfway between Hawaii and Australia, but she was low on gas and running out of time. More distress signals followed throughout the day; then the line fell silent. In that moment, Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan crashed their Lockheed Model 10-E Electra into the Pacific Ocean, never to be seen again.