News about Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart, an American aviation pioneer who was well-known internationally known, died during her lifetime, but the circumstances surrounding her death remain a mystery. When the plane crashed near Howland Island on July 2, 1937, the Kansas native was carrying a Lockheed Model 10 Electra with navigator Fred Noonan. She was aiming to become the first woman to complete a circumnavigation flight around the world at the time. So what went wrong? MailOnline has compiled a top five theories about the disappearance of a woman, from drowning in the Pacific Ocean to being eaten by crabs to simply assuming another woman's identity.