Probing Mystery of Amelia Earhart
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OAKLAND — Like Amelia Earhart, Jennifer Melvin knew at an early age that she wanted to fly.
A 34-year-old San Franciscan, Melvin was born 31 years after the famed aviator disappeared on an around-the-world flight. She was among the younger of the 120 participants in a weekend symposium of the Amelia Earhart Society marking the 65th anniversary of the start of Earhart’s final flight.
Various speakers discussed their theories on what happened when Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared July 2, 1937, on a flight from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island. Those theories include that the Electra sank in the ocean or that the fliers landed and died in the Marshall Islands.
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