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Amelia Earhart: the disappearance of the Electra (1937)
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Item · The first attempt ends: the Electra ground-loops on take-off at Luke Field, Hawaii, 20 March 1937
Item · Howland Island made ready: runways, fuel and a Coast Guard cutter (Dec 1936 - Jun 1937)
Item · The second attempt: eastbound from Miami to Lae, New Guinea, June 1937
Item · Departure from Lae, 2 July 1937, and what was heard on the way to Howland
Item · The Itasca's radio log, 1-2 July 1937: the last transmissions from KHAQQ, verbatim
Item · Why no bearing was taken: voice only, no 500 kc signals, a borrowed direction finder that got nothing
Item · The Itasca's reasoning that morning: the plane is down, probably north-west of Howland
Item · The Navy and Coast Guard search, 2-18 July 1937, and its conclusion
Item · The radio signals after the loss: what was reported, and how the Navy judged them
Item · Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) from the air: the USS Colorado's seaplanes, 9 July 1937
Item · Declared dead in law: Amelia Earhart, Los Angeles, 5 January 1939 (and Fred Noonan, 1938)
Item · The bones found on Gardner Island in 1940: reported, measured in Fiji, and lost
Item · Reading the lost bones from their 1941 measurements: the 1998, 2015 and 2018 analyses
Item · The Japanese-capture claim, Japan's 1937 offer to search, and the 2017 photograph traced to a 1935 book
Item · "Crash and sink": the deep-sea sonar searches near Howland, and the 2024 image that proved to be rock
Item · The 2026 Purdue and Archaeological Legacy Institute expedition to the 'Taraia Object' (status, 11 October 2026)
Item · Page 3 of the Itasca's radio log, 2 July 1937, with the 0843 entry 'WE ARE ON THE LINE 157 337'
Item · The Navy's chart 'Earhart Flight Information': the track from Lae, the line of position and the 'most probable ar
Item · The Army's photographs of the wrecked Electra and its tyre marks at Luke Field, 20 March 1937 (Exhibit L)
Item · The Navy's chart 'The Earhart Search, July 1937': the tracks of the Lexington, Colorado, Itasca and Swan
Item · The last logged message, 0843, 2 July 1937
Item · The Navy's conclusion, 31 July 1937
Item · The Colorado's captain on Gardner's lagoon, 13 July 1937
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