Who disappeared while attempting to fly around the world in 1937?

Amelia Earhart disappeared while attempting to fly around the world in 1937. She and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the central Pacific on July 2, 1937, during the leg from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island.

Earhart was already one of the world's most famous aviators. In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, and her final flight was intended to make her the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. The journey began from Miami on June 1, 1937, in a Lockheed Electra 10E.

Earhart radioed that fuel was running low as the aircraft approached Howland Island, but the plane never arrived. A major U.S. Navy search found no confirmed trace of the aircraft or its occupants, and Earhart was later declared legally dead. The official explanation is that the Electra ran out of fuel and crashed into the Pacific, although theories involving a crash landing on another island continue to attract researchers.