Corrigan, Douglas

Corrigan, Douglas
▪ 1996
 ("Wrong Way"), U.S. aviator who became a folk hero when he turned his authorized coast-to-coast (New York to California) flight into a transatlantic one (to Ireland) after U.S. authorities refused to approve his solo flight across the Atlantic; he insisted that he had misread his compass and earned the moniker "Wrong Way Corrigan" (b. Jan. 22, 1907—d. Dec. 9, 1995).

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