On July 17, 1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan filed a flight plan that indicated he was flying from New York to Low Angeles. True to his name, where did he end up?
Douglas Corrigan Douglas Corrigan Douglas Corrigan (January 22, 1907 – December 9, 1995) was an American aviator born in Galveston, Texas. He was nicknamed "Wrong Way" in 1938. After a transcontinental flight from Long Beach, California, to New York City, he flew from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Ireland, though his flight plan was filed to return to Long Beach. He claimed his unauthorized flight was due to a navigational error, caused by heavy cloud cover that obscured landmarks and low-light conditions, causing him to misread his compass. However, he was a skilled aircraft mechanic (he was one of
Douglas Corrigan his triumph. He was also given a ticker tape parade in Chicago. He appeared as a contestant on the July 16, 1957 episode of To Tell the Truth. Although Lindbergh did not immediately acknowledge the accomplishment, Lindbergh wrote a friendly four page handwritten letter to Corrigan in 1939 after Corrigan sent him a copy of the autobiography. Corrigan wrote his autobiography, "That's My Story", within months of the flight; it was published for the Christmas market on 15 December 1938. He also endorsed 'wrong-way' products including a watch that ran backwards. The following year, he starred as himself in RKO