The first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, mysteriously disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Will the search for Amelia ever end? Nearly eight decades later the lost aviator still sparks intense passion – and controversy! As recently as 2014, a federal judge dismissed a Wyoming man’s claims that an aircraft recovery group secretly found the Earhart’s wreckage in the South Pacific but kept it quiet so it could continue raising funds for the search.