About Wrong Way Corrigan Day
Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan’s took off from an airfield in Brooklyn on July 17, 1938, with plans to land in California. Claiming he took a wrong turn, the Irish American pilot landed in Dublin, Ireland the next day instead.
The motto of this day is that 'it is better to ask for forgiveness than permission', as it has long been claimed that Corrigan flew the Atlantic on purpose because he had been denied permission to do so at a time when the Charles Lindbergh flight aboard the Spirit of St.Louis, of 1927, was still considered a modern miracle.
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