Amelia Rose Earhart Space Museum, Earhart completed a circumnavigation of the globe in a single-engine airplane with her copilot, Shane Jordan. Her route was to fly across the US, then south into the Caribbean, northeast Brazil, the South Atlantic Ocean, then the African continent, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Islands, and the Pacific Ocean before returning to California. Earhart and Jordan started the global circumnavigation flight on June 26, 2014, departing Oakland, California at 8:19 am Pacific Standard Time in a single engine Pilatus PC-12 NG. They made 17 stops during the 24,300 nautical-mile trip over 108 flying hours, landing back in Oakland
Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence Electra was at least close to Howland Island, 800 miles away from the Marshall Islands. Author Fukiko Aoki, who researched and wrote a 1982 book, "Looking for Amelia", was similarly critical before the revelations from Yamano. Aoki located an elderly officer, part of the 1937 crew of the "Kōshū Maru", who denied the ship's involvement. Aoki subsequently researched the "Kōshū Maru" ship log, which showed that it was 1,500 miles away at the time of Earhart's disappearance. It was also argued that to reach and somehow land on the remote atoll where she purportedly crashed would have required Earhart, though