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Ghetto imagesDonald Trump said he would order his administration to shake the secret government records related to the disappearance of 1937 of the US aviation pioneer Amelia Erhart.
Erhart’s story, which disappeared while flying over the Pacific, “captivated millions,” writes US president on social media on Friday.
Erhart’s disappearance during an attempt to bypass the globe has generated numerous theories – from ordinary collapse due to fuel exhaustion to more complex allegations of Japanese capture or espionage of the US government.
While some FBI files and fleet search reports have been declassified over the decades, some records remain inaccessible, nourishing speculation to conceal.
Erhart disappeared during his attempt to fly around the world, trying to reach Howland Island in the Pacific to refuel.
The official explanation is that it did not find the island, lose communication and exhausted the fuel, only to collide in the ocean.
Although this is a large extent accepted version of events, there is no evidence – as in the debris – to support it.
“She disappeared into the Southern Pacific as she tried to become the first woman flying around the world,” Trump said. “Amelia has made almost three -quarters worldwide, before it suddenly and without notice, disappeared, never to be seen again.”
The two other prominent theories are that Erhart crashed on or near the Japanese Marshal Islands of the time, or that she reached Nikumaroro Island near Kiribati and died there.
There is no definite evidence of any of these theories – but this has not stopped lovers and professional historians digging into them.
Parts of a skeleton found on Nicumaroro in 1940 were initially thought to be hers, but at that time the doctors decided that they belonged to a male body.
According to Trump, the documents to be declassified and released will include “all government records related to Amelia Erhart, her last trip and everything else for her.”
In his own voice: Amelia Erhart spoke with the BBC in 1933.
Interest in her case – including attempts to find the aircraft – remains strong after eight decades.
Last year, Some researchers said They may have found Erhart’s long -lost aircraft.
Sonar Imaging, which maps the ocean floor, using sound waves, has led researchers to what they claim to be a small plane.
The discovery was made at about 4,877 m (16,000 feet) from the Pacific surface.
In 2022, a series of events took place in Derry 90th anniversary of Erhart’s historical transatlantic landing.
