After nearly a century, the disappearance
of Amelia Earhart and co-pilot Fred Noonan remains a mystery wrapped in an
enigma.
In 1937, Earhart set off to circumnavigate
the entire earth. According to researcher Vincent Loomis, they had about 1,000
miles left in the journey before the plane went down. Earhart may have been
killed on impact or died onshore from
dysentery.
Noonan, according to a Japanese medical
corpsman who treated Noonan’s wounds, Noonan had been tossed forward and cut his
head. There was also a four-inch gash in
one knee.
Noonan took a portable raft to a nearby
atoll, where, according to local natives, he was captured by the Japanese as he
came to shore. He was questioned on the beach, but spoke no Japanese, but was
arrested as a spy anyway since he was carrying a 35-millimeter camera with him when he came on
to the beach.
