The Woman Who Chose the Sky

On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean during the final, most dangerous leg of an attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Already one of the era's most celebrated aviators, Earhart was just hours from a tiny coral island when she radioed her position one last time, and then no further transmission ever came. No wreckage was ever found. This episode traces the flight, the radio failures that doomed it, and the theories that still surround one of history's most enduring unsolved mysteries.