An American icon, to an American tragedy, Amelia Earhart lives among us in spirit. The unanswered question is what ever happened to her? Did she get captured by the Japanese? Run off with her co-pilot? Or simply just ran out of gas? Many historians have their theories on the mystery. Earhart is a legend because of her great achievements. She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, first to fly solo from Hawaii to California, and attempted to be the first woman to have flown across the world. However, she disappeared in 1937, when we lost signal with her plane, the Electra. Her last flight was her most famous. She made it all the way to New Guinea with 2,556 miles to get to Howland. To prepare for Howland, her and her navigator, Fred Noonan, had a lot of support from people who gave them free food, mechanical service, as well as advice from veterans. Amelia was very tired from traveling so much and focused more on getting home before her birthday (Briand). On July 2nd 10:00 a.m. the Electra took off on its way to Howland. There was a light wind, clear skies, and a smooth sea. (Winters). Everything was going as planned until the signals with Earhart were becoming unclear and unreadable around 16 hours into the flight (Butler). Earhart kept talking in the radio, but she could not hear anything and at 7:42 a.m. on the 3rd, she radioed in their gas is running low and they are flying 1,000 feet above. The Electra is known to have been in the air for at least 24 hours and 25 minutes. (Briand). At 8:45a.m., Earhart’s last words were “We are running north and south.” (Briand). After that, any connection with Amelia Earhart or Fred Noonan was lost and never found again. Fifteen minutes after they lost connection with the Electra, the world’s largest sea search in history had begun. The Electra could have been lost within 450,000 square miles in the Pacific. On July 13th, the ship, Lexington, had arrived with 10 other ships, 100 aircraft, and 3,000 men to search...