Amelia Earhart stands next to a Lockheed Electra 10E in Oakland, Calif., before the first leg of her attempt to fly around the world along the Equator, in this undated file photo. Earhart, her navigator, Fred Noonan, and the plane vanished over the Pacific in July 1937. Sixty-five years later, their disappearance remains in one of America's great mysteries and the subject of continuing research and debate. (AP Photo)