After completing 22,000 miles of her world flight, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan departed from Lae, New Guinea, and disappeared somewhere enroute to Howland Island, losing radio contact with the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca on July 2, 1937. Roosevelt authorized a massive search for the fliers, but the search was abandoned on July 18. Her husband, George Putnam, continued to finance his own search until October 1937. Amelia Earhart was declared legally dead in Superior Court in Los Angeles, California on January 5, 1939. Her plane has never been found. Earhart and Noonan's bodies have never been recovered. Will this mystery ever be solved?
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