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| Date: | Friday 2 July 1937 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Lockheed 10E Electra Special |
| Owner/operator: | Purdue Research Foundation |
| Registration: | NR16020 |
| MSN: | 1055 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
| Location: | missing near Howland Island -
 U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Lae, New Guinea |
| Howland Island | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
The crew was engaged in a world tour and the aircraft has been prepared with special equipment. It was able to fly twenty hours without fuel stop. Crew left Lae in New Guinea bound for Howland Island, in the Pacific Ocean. This trip was estimated to 20 hours flight and it seems the aircraft was lost in sea some thirty minutes prior to its arrival at Howland Island. SAR operations never found any trace of the aircraft nor the crew. Both occupants, famous aviation pioneers and aviators, were lost forever.
Crew:
Amelia Earhart, pilot,
Frederick Noonan, radio navigator.
Causes: Fuel exhaustion was suspected but the exact cause of the accident has never been determined.
Sources:
1. http://tighar.org/
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/2-july-1937/
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/08/health/amelia-earhart-bones-island-intl/index.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43323944
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/47653021/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/credible-amelia-earhart-radio-signals-were-ignored-bogus/
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 20 March 1937 | NR16020 | Purdue Research Foundation | 0 | Luke Field, HI |  |
sub |
Images:
Photo: Bill Larkins (CC:by-sa)
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 12-Nov-2008 12:11 | angels one five | Updated |
| 23-Apr-2010 12:35 | TB | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative, ] |
| 26-Apr-2010 02:27 | TB | Updated [Location, Narrative, ] |
| 10-Sep-2010 02:35 | angels one five | Updated [Narrative, ] |
| 13-May-2011 06:45 | angels one five | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative, ] |
| 06-Mar-2012 11:29 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Narrative, ] |
| 12-Dec-2014 08:12 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Country, Narrative, ] |
| 07-Jan-2016 16:05 | TB | Updated [Time, Location, Country, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 24-Jan-2018 13:45 | harro | Updated [Photo, ] |
| 24-Jan-2018 13:46 | harro | Updated [Country, ] |
| 07-Feb-2018 22:42 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
| 09-Mar-2018 14:12 | whiteshark | Updated [Source, Embed code, ] |
| 09-Mar-2018 14:23 | whiteshark | Updated [Embed code, ] |
| 09-Mar-2018 16:00 | Anon. | Updated [Source, Embed code, ] |
| 29-Sep-2020 10:34 | Anon. | Updated [Location, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 01-Dec-2020 20:49 | TB | Updated [Source, Damage, ] |
| 29-Nov-2021 23:22 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location, Country, Damage, ] |
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