“........has remained one of aviation’s greatest mysteries for nearly 90 years.”
She died on Nikumaroro Island. The coconut crabs feasted on her. Noonan likely died on the aircraft and was swept out to sea by the currents.
Then why have exactly zero pieces of physical evidence emerged on Niko during multiple expeditions over the last three decades? An aerial search just a week after Earhart went missing revealed no evidence of any aircraft on the reef. The island was visited and surveyed multiple times in 1937, 1938, and 1939 as well as during the Second World War and no trace of Earhart or Noonan’s presence was discovered. Gillespie has made a nice living out of that myth for many years.