does anyone have any ideas about why amiela earhart's plane crached?

Answer 1

the most frequent theory is,to avoid bad weather,she flew miles off course while over the ocean,causing her to run low on fuel.she crashed into the ocean,or possibly an island,when she ran out of fuel completely.some theories say she died on the island,some theories say she was captured by the japanese,who thought she was a spy,and she later died in prison.no one really knows.

Answer 2

There's never been any question about the cause,only the where. Her take-off was filmed for the newsreels and she was clearly drastically over-loaded with fuel. She had gotten off course on the previous leg on her round-the-world journey and nearly ran out of fuel. So she got nervous about fuel and insisted on big extra tanks being added before take-off. In the footage she barely clears the tree-tops and the plane is still veering from right to left as it goes out of sight. No question what happened. Too much weight; inability to stabilize; eventually just slid sideways into the waves. Only question is how far she got and where she went down. She apparently assumed she could somehow keep it up long enough to use enough fuel to lighten and stabilize. It doesn't work that way; the ground crew tried to tell her that. You would go down long before you used up enough gas to make any weight difference. All that "mystery" jive was cooked up by her newspaper-magnate husband George Putnam because it was (and is) good copy. Thing is,it's all b.s. It's always been obvious what happened and why.

Answer 3

I have read, but I do not know, that her plane had a compass or gyroscope on board that would help them (her and her male co-pilot) navigate from place to place. When they left the last place, flying East over the Pacific Ocean, the gyroscope or compass failed. That meant that they would have to fly by "dead reckoning." This means that you think that you are going in the right direction. You have no idea. So you steer a course that you last had before your navigational aids went out. What I read was that she and her partner expected to fly so-and-so-thousand miles to reach an island in the Pacific. At the end of the journey, they descended, the island was not there, nor was any thing else. End of story.

Answer 4

Amiela had never bothered to learn how to use her radio directional. Aircraft controllers could hear her asking where the island was but she could not hear them. Eventually it's assumed she ran out of fuel.

Some argue she knew it was a one way flight but because of pressure from her agent/manager/husband she took off knowing it would be her last flight.

PBS just ran a very informative documentry on the subject.

Answer 5

There are so many theories out there about Earharts flight. Based on what I've read and heard, I believe something happened to her navigation equipment, eventually ran out of fuel, and crashed into the sea or some very deserted island.