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[[File:Dakar-st-louis.png|thumb|300px]]On the tenth leg of the second attempt, [[Earhart]] and [[Noonan]] crossed the Atlantic (7 June). They landed in St. Louis rather than '''Dakar'''. | [[File:Dakar-st-louis.png|thumb|300px]]On the tenth leg of the second attempt, [[Earhart]] and [[Noonan]] crossed the Atlantic (7 June). They landed in St. Louis rather than '''Dakar'''. | ||
[[Earhart]] claimed that she turned north when [[Noonan]] had told her to turn south: "Crossing the Atlantic, heading for Dakar, Noonan had advised her to turn south, as she was north of her course. She nevertheless turned north, and landed 165 miles off course in St. Louis, Senegal."<ref>[http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Documents/Hooven_Report/HoovenReport.html The Hooven Report.]</ref> | |||
* [[Timeline]] | [[Ric Gillespie]] says that Noonan's letters and his annotated chart of the South Atlantic crossing reveal [[Earhart|Earhart's]] famous turned-the-wrong-way explanation for her landing in St. Louis rather than '''Dakar''' to be a fabrication. "Earhart took responsibility and apparently invented a story that made the landing at St. Louis look like the result of an error on her part rather than a conscious decision to land at an unapproved airport."<ref>[http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/forum/Forum_Archives/200405.txt 20 May 2004 Forum.]</ref> | ||
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* [[Timeline of the second round-the-world attempt]] | |||
Revision as of 19:16, 29 October 2009
On the tenth leg of the second attempt, Earhart and Noonan crossed the Atlantic (7 June). They landed in St. Louis rather than Dakar.
Earhart claimed that she turned north when Noonan had told her to turn south: "Crossing the Atlantic, heading for Dakar, Noonan had advised her to turn south, as she was north of her course. She nevertheless turned north, and landed 165 miles off course in St. Louis, Senegal."[1]
Ric Gillespie says that Noonan's letters and his annotated chart of the South Atlantic crossing reveal Earhart's famous turned-the-wrong-way explanation for her landing in St. Louis rather than Dakar to be a fabrication. "Earhart took responsibility and apparently invented a story that made the landing at St. Louis look like the result of an error on her part rather than a conscious decision to land at an unapproved airport."[2]