Amelia Earhart disappeared during a flight across the Pacific Ocean.
During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra , Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island .	Howland Island	Howland Island	Lockheed Model 10 Electra	Lockheed Model 10 Electra	disappeared	List of aerial disappearances
