Government disinformation and the truth about the disappearance of America’s First Lady of Flight

With all due respects to the Discovery Channel and reporter Rossella Lorenzi, nothing new in the Gardner Island searches has produced any credible evidence of the Earhart loss.

Hilary Swank’s recent “Amelia” did not even attempt to provide any answers to what actually happened to the famous “lady lindy”.

I lived in Saipan for 13 years through the 90's and into mid 2000. Having lived there so long, I heard stories about Amelia Earhart being executed on the Island of Saipan.

Amelia is a currently released 2009 dramatized biographical film of the life of Amelia Earhart, starring Hilary Swank as Earhart along with a cast that includes Richard Gere, Christopher Eccleston and Ewan McGregor.

Carol Linn Dow, screenwriter for the movie project, "The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart," spent ten years intensely researching the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan. Dow's compelling screenplay paved the way for her to write the book, "The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart."

On a stormy day in June 1928, the Fokker tri-motor Friendship dipped down out of a leaden sky to land in the bay near Burry Port, Wales. The airship taxied through the pouring rain to a nearby buoy and cut its engines.

In July 1936 Amelia took delivery of a Lockheed L-10E Electra financed by Purdue University and started planning a round-the-world flight. This would not be the first to circle the globe, but would be the longest at 29,000 miles (47,000 km) since it would follow a grueling equatorial route.

The reminiscences of Chief Radioman Leo G. Bellarts on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart on his watch, 2 July 1937, Howland Island

The Operational Archives Branch of the Naval Historical Center has placed the following records relating to Amelia Earhart on microfilm.

Amelia Earhart was born on 24 July 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. Her flying career began in Los Angeles in 1921 when, at age 24, she took flying lessons from Neta Snook and bought her first airplane-- a Kinner Airstar.

Perhaps the most well-known of all female aviators, Amelia Earhart was introduced to aviation history in 1928 as a mere passenger aboard the Friendship, a Fokker tri-motor.

My name is Carol Linn Dow, and I am the screenwriter for “The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart.” Felix Girard, Executive Producer at Allied Artists Inc., asked me to comment on the reasons why I wrote the script.

One of the mysteries is Amelia Earhart’s briefcase. A Marine in World War II claims he discovered the briefcase in a safe in the war zone during the invasion at Garapan, Saipan.

Since early 1994, I have been involved in a project to locate aircraft wreckage seen on New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea, by Australian soldiers on a WWII patrol on 17 April 1945.

Amelia Earhart endures in the American consciousness as one of the world's most celebrated aviators. Amelia remains a symbol of the power and perseverance of American women, and the adventurous spirit so essential to the American persona.

Featuring News Clips and Bulletins from June 18, 1928, to February 16, 1966.

OUR STORY HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD ON THE SILVER SCREEN

One of the true stumbling stones of the Earhart disappearance has been, for years and years, her last broadcasts which contained the words... "Only one-half hour of gas left."

A series of questions and answers concerning the disappearance of Amelia Earhart

One of the mysteries to the Earhart disappearance has been one of Amelia’s last broadcasts in the Howland area with words to the extent that “there was only ½ hour of gas left.”

Amelia's flying accomplishments proved influential to American pilots and pilots of the world alike. She was a creative impulse within the Ninety-Nines organization, and a stimulus for womankind to replace outdated social norms.

After four years of writing and rewriting, The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart is ready for development.

In July 1936, Amelia Earhart took delivery of a Lockheed 10E Electra financed by Purdue and started planning a round-the-world flight.

The unresolved circumstances of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, along with her fame, has attracted a great body of other claims relating to her last flight.

The 1928 trans-Atlantic flight of the Fokker Friendship launched Amelia's career and established her name. As a passenger on the flight, she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air.

Amelia Mary Earhart, missing as of July 2, 1937.

Amelia Earhart is considered the most celebrated of all women aviators.

Learning to fly in 1921, Amelia Earhart accumulated an impressive number of hours in the air before becoming famous as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.