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概述：著名的传奇性女飞行员艾米利亚·埃尔哈特，她短短的一生中写满故事。艾米利亚到底是机毁人亡，还是神秘失踪后另有文章，你愿意相信哪一种呢？
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Amelia Earhart
Fred Noonan
Nina Robinson
Lockheed-10
Pathe
Howland Island
the Coast Guard
the Navy
Colorado
Honolulu
California
Lexington
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校对：早安Miki
翻译&注释：haifaforever   
答疑：cherryxyrIt's 75 years since a woman aviator Amelia Earhart flew her final flight over the Pacific Ocean. She was trying to fly around the world to mark her retirement from a career of flying. But she and her navigator Fred Noonan lost contact with radio control and disappeared mid-flight. Nina Robinson reports.
"It's the second of July, 1937, and Amelia Earhart's small twin-engine Lockheed-10 plane has disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. It makes headline news around the world. Newsreels like Pathe covered the huge rescue effort."
"To a waiting world came news of disaster as the plane failed to reach tiny Howland Island in the Pacific. A British freighter, the Coast Guard and the Navy sped to the search, the battleship Colorado steaming up from Honolulu under full stretch."
Amelia had been flying this 28,000-mile trip for over a month and had just 6,000 miles to go in the first ever attempt to complete such a journey.
"From California, the aircraft carrier Lexington with 3,000 men and 72 planes aboard, races into the distant Pacific to join the greatest searching party in the history of aviation."75年前，女飞行员艾米利亚·埃尔哈特飞越太平洋，那是她的最后一次飞行。当时她正在进行一次环球飞行，希望以此纪念自己飞行生涯的结束。但她和导航员弗莱德·努南却在飞行途中和（地面）无线电控制失去了联络，就此消失。妮娜·罗宾逊报道。
“那是1937年7月2日，艾米利亚·埃尔哈特驾驶的洛克希德-10型双引擎小飞机在太平洋上空某处消失了。消息在全世界成了头条新闻，很多新闻短片都报道了这次大型搜救行动，比如百代公司的这部短片。”
“全世界都在翘首期待，传来的却是灾难的噩耗。飞机没能到达太平洋上小小的豪兰岛。（事发后）一艘英国货船、美国海岸警卫队和美国海军都迅速展开搜寻，战舰科罗拉多号也开足马力全速赶往支援。”
为了这次28,000英里的航程，艾米利亚已经飞行了一个多月，还剩6,000英里她就能完成这次史无前例的旅程了。
“航空母舰莱克星顿号从加州出发，载着3000人和72架飞机，奔赴遥远的太平洋去参加这次飞行史上规模最宏大的搜救行动。”