If Amelia Earhart was such a great pilot, why did she crash her plane in the middle of the ocean?

As usual, you never reply with facts, only ad hominem and fake accusations. If you had any self-awareness you'd realize you are doing the opposite of helping your side.

I don't have to help my side. All I have to do is not belong to yours - the legion of embittered male creeps.

I think you don't have a clue about what aviation was like in the 30s. Or how hard it was to navigate over a large body of water where there are few landmarks to guide you. Not even sure how well mapped the Pacific Ocean was at the time.

I would say that anyone who flew planes and landed them successfully (even leaving aside the "any landing you can walk away from is a good one") in those days was a pretty darn good pilot.

No...a driver running out of gas is today in developed countries is a really dumb decision since there are ample opportunities to put gas in a car. We have instruments that tell us how much we have and conditions we drive in really don't affect the mileage enough to make a difference.

In the case of a pilot flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1932, there is not a "gas station" every mile. Fuel consumption and range is heavily impacted by weather and/or headwinds. Heck even just navigating to the next island is a chore I doubt 99.5% of people on this forum could do using the equipment at the time.

Typical LRC to belittle the achievements of amazing, brave, indigenous and possibly trans women.

Okay, I'm going to take you seriously for a minute despite thinking it's not a good idea. Do you really think that a driver who runs out of gas while driving along a highway that's got gas stations every few miles is comparable to a pilot flying across thousands of miles of open ocean? Are you comparing a driver getting lost while driving on roads that have names and route numbers, where he could have gotten maps before he started his trip, where there could be landmarks giving him a clue about where he is, and where he can find someone to ask for directions from if all else fails is a lot like a pilot flying across that nearly endless, featureless, unmarked,open ocean?

God, this site is so freakin random sometimes. It's simultaneously horrifying and oddly entertaining, even if for just a minute.

Who is to say she didn't successfully make an emergency landing on some atoll or something. Maybe it was the searchers who were incompetent. The fact that her plane hasn't been found decades later doesn't make me put a whole lot of faith in the searchers.

See comment #19. Her "achievements" were massively exaggerated.

I have been interested in Amelia Earhart since I saw a movie starring Susan Clark years ago.

She wasn't a great pilot, she was just a well funded pilot.

That is not a knock against her courage or what she did for the advancement of women.

Her accomplishments are hers, regardless of how she got into the pilot seat.

Based.

Why aren’t you out campaigning for Charles Lindberg’s navigator, boy?

Come on how hard is it to map the Pacific Ocean. “Look there’s the water” She should have known where it was.

And why was he consistently among the MLB leaders for striking out the most?

You would not exactly find a lot of places to get fuel for a plane around the world in those days. And to try to cross the Pacific Ocean with one of those planes took immense bravery. She was apparently on a 2550 mile leg in poor weather, trying to locate a Navy support vessel when the plane disappeared.

"On May 20-21, 1932, Earhart became the first woman, and the second person after Charles Lindbergh, to fly nonstop and solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Flying a red Lockheed Vega 5B, she left Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Canada, and landed about 15 hours later near Londonderry, Northern Ireland."

But this was nothing and shouldn't count, right?

How many flying hours did you log?

Amelia Earhart was flying in the 30ies. There was no GPS and the engines where not as reliable as today. To fly around over the Pacific Ocean took a lot of guts.

But hey an armchair pilot/ track runner knows everything about it.

en.wikipedia.org

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Mary Earhart ( AIR-hart; July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer and writer. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean....

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She was utterly fearless/reckless and in the end it got her and Fred Noonan killed.

I said exactly this. Earhart flew solo and nonstop from Newfoundland and crash landed in Ireland in 1932. Lindberg flew solo and nonstop from New York to Paris in 1927. His flight took 33 hours.

Her flight is not nothing. It's just not the same, unless we are judging by different standards based on sex.

Downvoting facts is this board's favorite pastime.