Amy Johnson
Amy Johnson, born in 1903 in Hull in the East Riding of
Yorkshire before the first flight of an aeroplane was a pioneering English
aviator; she was the first female pilot to fly alone from Britain to Australia.
She flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary and
died during a ferry flight.
On January 5th 1941 a frosty and foggy day she
took off from Blackpool airport to ferry an Airspeed Oxford, a twin engine
training aircraft to take it to an airbase near Oxford.
She never made it. What happened next is unsure; the
wreckage of her aircraft was found in the river Thames about 4 ½ hours after
take. It is not clear if she got lost in bad weather and crashed or that she
was shot down by friendly fire. Her body was never found.
This mystery remains today.
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