Speculation on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan

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Speculation on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan has continued since their disappearance in 1937. After the largest search and rescue attempt in history up to that time, the U.S. Navy concluded that Earhart and Noonan ditched at sea after their plane ran out of fuel; this "crash and sink theory" is the most widely accepted explanation. However, several alternative hypotheses have been considered. Among mainstream historians, fuel-exhaustion-at-sea is viewed as the most likely explanation, with a diversion to Gardner Island also being plausible. Other explanations, such as secret detention by the Japanese, are characterized as conspiracy theories, while others, like alien abduction, are outside the realm of scientific possibility.

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