She and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were trying to make history by flying around the world at the time of her disappearance.

But since the pair’s tragedy, no one has been able to figure it out, though some specialists believe they know what happened.

What happened to Amelia Earhart?

Earhart, who became the 16th woman to obtain an aviation licence after being enamoured with flying as a young adult after a daring stuntman at a fair took her on a 2,000-foot trip, was nothing short of an outspoken gender norm breaker in her day.

She began her career as a nurse’s assistant in a Canadian military hospital during World War I and later became a social worker in 1925, but she had no idea that she