Amelia Earhart disappeared almost 90 years ago. Why are so many people still looking for her?

By Natasha Heap, Program Director for the Bachelor of Aviation, University of Southern Queensland

It has been more than 88 years since the world’s most famous female aviator, Amelia Earhart, and her navigator Fred Noonan, disappeared on the second-last leg of their around-the-world flight odyssey.

According to the United States government’s official report of the 16-day search, Earhart and Noonan ran out of fuel and crashed into the Pacific Ocean, short of their objective of Howland Island, on July 2 1937.

The disappearance, which is often labelled as “mysterious”, continues…

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