The Amelia Earhart Mystery Solved?
Dan Snow's History Hit
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4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
What happened to the pioneering pilot, Amelia Earhart? In 1937, while attempting to circumnavigate the globe by aircraft, Earhart and her navigator went missing. Some 87 years later, new evidence has emerged - a grainy image of what looks like a plane, thousands of feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
To talk about Earhart and this discovery, Dan is joined by the aptly named Amelia Rose Earhart, a pilot and former reporter. Could this be Amelia Earhart's missing aircraft and the end to one of history's most enduring mysteries?
Produced by Mariana Des Forges and edited by Dougal Patmore.
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| 0:00.0 | We make the unknowns known. We answer the questions you're afraid to ask. |
| 0:07.0 | We gather intelligence and share it intelligently. |
| 0:11.0 | We calculate risk and simplify complexity. We are SRM, your first call for |
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| 0:26.0 | This episode of Dan Snow's history hit is brought to you by British Airways. |
| 0:30.0 | So if you're listening to this podcast, you're probably very aware that I love to travel. |
| 0:34.0 | We can probably all think of a trip that's had a lasting impact on us. |
| 0:37.2 | For me, one that springs to mind is definitely my trip to South Africa. |
| 0:42.4 | In the very beginning of 2022, I boarded a British Airways flight. |
| 0:47.0 | From the airport went straight to the mighty ice-breaking ship, which were taking on its last doors and provisions |
| 0:52.0 | before we headed south across the southern ocean |
| 0:54.4 | and into the Antarctic. We'd got through the southern ocean, we'd entered the Weddle Sea, |
| 0:59.5 | we'd survived getting very briefly trapped in the ice, and we had found Shackleton's ship |
| 1:05.3 | endurance. We then made our best speed all the way back to Cape Town and I |
| 1:11.0 | popped on a British Airways flight and flew home. |
| 1:14.0 | And that flight home was one of the all-time great. |
| 1:16.0 | I was filled with excitement about seeing my family again, |
| 1:19.0 | but also enormous pride and pleasure in what we'd achieved. |
| 1:22.0 | The great thing about British Airways is they get it. |
| 1:25.0 | They understand that for those of us flying with them, |
| 1:27.0 | it's not a case of wanting to get from A to B. |
| 1:29.0 | It's the people you meet. |
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