People have never stopped speculating about why living legend Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on the second of June, 1937, while attempting a round‐the‐world‐flight. Their disappearance launched the largest and most expensive air and sea search in American History, but neither Earhart, Noonan or the plane were found. Another search privately funded by Earhardt’s husband, George Putnam, was also unsuccessful, and Earhart was declared legally dead in January 1939. According to the official report, Earhart and Noonan had been unable to locate their destination, Howlan Island, ran out of fuel, crashed into the water and sank. Many hypotheses have been made; some backed by plausible scientific evidence, others not. For instance, some have used Earhart’s close relationship with Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt to suggest that she was actually a spy for the U.S. government. Others have suggested that Earhart and Noonan landed on one of the Japanese‐occupied islands of the Pacific and were taken prisoner. Still others believe that Earhart didn’t die at all, but returned to the U.S., changed her name, and lived the rest of a long, healthy life in obscurity. What is the Central Idea of this text?