President Donald Trump took a sudden interest Friday in the decades-old mystery surrounding pilot Amelia Earhart’s disappearance, ordering the release of any classified documents.Om vad som eventuellt skedde med Earhart och Noonan sammanfattas kort.
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It is unclear what, if any, files remain sealed. Much of the information about what happened to Earhart and her copilot 88 years ago is already public.
“There's nothing still classified by the U.S. government on Amelia Earhart,” Ric Gillespie, an aviation historian, told the Associated Press.
Gillespie is the executive director of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery and he studied Earhart for decades.
He doubts that there is more information on the famed aviator to release, citing previous document dumps by the FBI and the National Archives.
Theories have abounded over the years. Some have veered into the absurd, including alien abduction or that Earhart assumed an alias and lived in New Jersey. Other theories speculate she and Noonan were executed by Japan or died as castaways on an island.
Available evidence points to the latter explanation. Research suggests she landed on Nikumaroro after her disappearance in 1937 and evidence includes satellite imagery, radio transmissions, and artifacts recovered from the island.
Purdue University has a collection of Earhart documents that includes photos, letters, and other artifacts once owned by the pioneering aviator.
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