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Person1893 – 1937
Fred Noonan
American navigator who helped pioneer Pan American’s Pacific routes and vanished with Earhart on her 1937 round-the-world flight
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Earhart and her navigator Noonan set out to fly around the world near the equator and covered nearly 30,000 of the 40,000 km — but on 2 July 1937, searching for Howland Island, they vanished over the Pacific.
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Amelia Earhart1897 – 1937American aviator, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (1932), who vanished over the Pacific in 1937 while flying around the world near the equator
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- Amelia Earhart1897 – 1937
From her first ride in an aeroplane to the first solo Atlantic flight by a woman and her disappearance over the Pacific on a flight around the world — the life of an aviator who widened the paths of the sky