Compléter IV LEVEL UNIT 4 LET ME EXPLAIN Lesson 5Version en ligne Reading and pronouncing par Martha Uribe 1 young pilot began highest studied planned record received decided 1897 passenger Amelia Earhart was born on July 24 , , in Atchison , Kansas , USA . As a adult , she to pursue a medical career . She at Columbia University in 1919 and to study medicine . But then she took her first plane ride in 1920 and decided to become a . In 1921 , Earhart flying lessons and soon bought her first airplane . As soon as she her pilot ? s license , she set a for the flight by a female pilot . After this , she continued to set records , becoming the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean as an air in 1928 and participating in the first women ? s air derby in 1929 . 2 declared Hawaii government accomplishments Atlantic woman inspirational damaged became California disappeared On May 21 , 1932 , she the first woman to fly across the . She went on to become the first woman to fly across the US in 1932 . She also became the first person to fly from to in January , 1935 , and the first person to fly from Los Angeles to Mexico City in April of the same year . After these , Earhart decided to try a flight around the world . Her first attempt was in March of 1937 . It was cancelled because her plane got . She began again on June 1 of that year with a navigator named Fred Noonan . On July 2 , 1937 , however , Earhart ? s plane near Howland Island in the Pacific . The US began to search for Earhart and Noonan , but the search was called off on July 19 . She was legally dead in 1939 . Amelia Earhart was an .