A safiyar ranar 20 ga Mayu, 1932, Earhart mai shekaru 34 ya tashi daga Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, tare da kwafin Jaridar Telegraph-Journal, wanda dan jarida Stuart Trueman ya ba ta, da nufin tabbatar da ranar jirgin. Ta yi niyyar tashi zuwa Paris a cikin injin ta guda guda guda Lockheed Vega 5B don yin koyi da Charles Lindbergh solo jirgin sama shekaru biyar da suka gabata. Mataimakinsa na fasaha don jirgin ya kasance sanannen jirgin saman Amurka na Norwegian Bernt Balchen wanda ya taimaka shirya jirgin ta. Ya kuma taka rawar da "decoy" ga 'yan jarida yayin da yake shirya shiri na Vega na Earhart don jirgin kansa na Arctic.
Herbert Hoover