Amelia Earhart's Fatal Mistake

A series of errors turned Amelia Earhart’s greatest flight into one of history’s greatest mysteries. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. I highly recommend Susan Butler’s incredible book East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart https://a.co/d/9ApVp23 Chapters: 0:00 Tomboy beginnings 1:02 A War That Changed Everything 1:36 First Urge to Fly 2:53 Inspired by Charles Lindbergh 3:50 First Atlantic Crossing (1928) 4:46 Becoming a Celebrity 5:40 Marriage to George Putnam 6:22 Proving Herself as a Pilot 7:26 The Solo Atlantic Flight (1932) 8:49 Breaking More Records 9:36 The Dream Machine: Lockheed Electra 10:48 Around the World Attempt (1937) 12:58 The Second Last Leg 13:24 Search, Disappearance, and Legacy 14:18 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support Cindy on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Special thanks to the following for permission to utilize footage: 1932 flight footage courtesy of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Autogyro footage courtesy of the University of South Carolina Bendix radio direction finder courtesy of Oldtymeantiques on eBay: https://ebay.us/m/C8F8sP Earhart’s childhood home in Atchison, Kansas: Ammodramus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons