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[[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> | [[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> | ||
[[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> | "My navigator indicated that we should turn south. Had we done so, a half hour would have brought us to Dakar. But a 'left turn' seemed to me in order and after fifty miles of flying along the coast we found ourselves at St. Louis, Senegal. Once arrived at the airport it was wiser to sit down than retrace our track over a strange country with the sudden darkness of the tropics imminent. The elapsed time across, by the way, was thirteen hours and twelve minutes."<ref>''Last Flight,'' p. 79.</ref> | ||
[[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. | |||
:"The strange thing about the whole story of Earhart disregarding Noonan's advice and turning the wrong way at the African coast is that the marks and notations on the actual chart Noonan was using (now on file at Purdue) tell a rather different tale. Randy Jacobson was able to reconstruct the navigational situation which arose at the end of the flight and it appears that flight's termination at St. Louis rather than Dakar was the result of a rational decision based upon their slightly off-course location, the poor visiblity, and the impending darkness. Noonan certainly made no mention of any disagreement with Earhart in his letter to Gene Pallette. Why Earhart described the incident the way she did in her report to the Herald Tribune (later repeated and embellished in ''Last Flight'') is a bit of a mystery. Amelia Earhart did not always tell the truth to the press when describing her adventures. This appears to be one of those times."<ref>[http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/forum/Highlights81_100/highlights100.html Ric Gillespie, 7 August 2000 Forum.]</ref> | |||
:"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> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
Revision as of 19:23, 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]
"My navigator indicated that we should turn south. Had we done so, a half hour would have brought us to Dakar. But a 'left turn' seemed to me in order and after fifty miles of flying along the coast we found ourselves at St. Louis, Senegal. Once arrived at the airport it was wiser to sit down than retrace our track over a strange country with the sudden darkness of the tropics imminent. The elapsed time across, by the way, was thirteen hours and twelve minutes."[2]
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.
- "The strange thing about the whole story of Earhart disregarding Noonan's advice and turning the wrong way at the African coast is that the marks and notations on the actual chart Noonan was using (now on file at Purdue) tell a rather different tale. Randy Jacobson was able to reconstruct the navigational situation which arose at the end of the flight and it appears that flight's termination at St. Louis rather than Dakar was the result of a rational decision based upon their slightly off-course location, the poor visiblity, and the impending darkness. Noonan certainly made no mention of any disagreement with Earhart in his letter to Gene Pallette. Why Earhart described the incident the way she did in her report to the Herald Tribune (later repeated and embellished in Last Flight) is a bit of a mystery. Amelia Earhart did not always tell the truth to the press when describing her adventures. This appears to be one of those times."[3]
- "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."[4]
References
- ↑ The Hooven Report.
- ↑ Last Flight, p. 79.
- ↑ Ric Gillespie, 7 August 2000 Forum.
- ↑ 20 May 2004 Forum.