Dakar
On the tenth leg of the second attempt, Earhart and Noonan crossed the Atlantic (7 June). They landed in St. Louis rather than Dakar. "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]
- Gillespie 20 May 2004 Forum
- Noonan's letters and his annotated chart of the South Atlantic crossing reveal her 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.