This. If she knew how to use her equipment and bothered to learn Morse Code, the best fail-safe of the time, she would have probably been fine. Instead she made a heap of stupid mistakes that cost her life.

fr. what the fuck is the deal?

It's ironic that the same reason that Amelia Earhart apparently died, is what causes people to want to censor themselves.

Amelia Earhart fucking ✨died✨

Stop posting censored ~~shit~~ stuff on the internet.

I love this simultaneously anti- and pro-censorship meme. Gets me every time. laughs my parents' ass off

Gotta feed the engagement machine

I'm with you, but I couldn't find an uncensored version in the 3 seconds I spent looking.

Free engagement.

To put things in context, this is what they used for communication between a tank and its commanders in WWI:

When the Titanic sunk in 1912, they had a telegraph on board, but no voice radio.

In the 1920s radio took off as a one-way broadcaster to receiver technology, but it still was only rarely used as two-way communications. That only really started for communications between ships in WWII.

So, although she didn't know how to use the radio in her plane, it was mostly because radio communication was a brand new thing. I'm sure what they put in her plane wasn't some off-the-shelf radio that had standard switches, antennas and parts. It was probably cobbled together from various parts and only the truly tech-oriented people understood it.

If anyone is curious here's a fairly exhaustive description of the radio situation for this flight:

https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/pan-am-radio-pioneer-capt-almon-gray-amelia-didnt-know-radio/

Not much of a real man if he's second in command to a woman is he?? 🤣 /s

Never thought i would see someone opposing circle jerking bashing on men and being upvoted for it on Lemmy.

Its nice.

Only if it's misinformation that's also rage bait

Not only that, they weren't near the burmuda triangle!

Cause apps like tiktok will prevent your post from being seen for having a scary bad word and now they have everyone trained to self-censor

Only if you ignore most of the facts about the situation that got her killed, if i recall correctly the mission was a bit rushed, there were some miscommunication, and for some reason her radio wasn't able to receive from the ship that she was supposed to meet up with, so the ship could hear her but she couldn't hear them, and thus she couldn't locate the ship