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- Her mysterious death
With
the public losing interest in her epic flights and her marriage
to Jim Mollison ending in divorce Amy Johnson joined the armed forces
to help the war effort.
In
1940 she enlisted in the Air Transport Auxiliary flying aircraft
from factories to RAF airbases.
On
January 5 1941, Amy Johnson took off in thick, freezing fog from
Blackpool airport. She was on a routine flight to deliver an aeroplane
to an RAF base in Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
Four
and a half hours later her plane crashed in to the Thames Estuary
miles away from her intended destination. Amy's body was never recovered.
Many theories have grown up surrounding her mysterious death.
Why did an experienced pilot get lost on a flight that should have
lasted only 90 minutes ?
One
suggestion was that she was shot down by anti aircraft guns after
being mistaken for a German bomber. Another theory says she was
on a secret mission.
The
truth of what happened will probably never be known.
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Images
on this page courtesy of the Sewerby Hall Collection, East
Riding of Yorkshire Council.
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