Ask pretty much anybody who Amelia Earhart was, and if that somebody knows the name, there's at least a 99% chance that they will respond that she was the first woman who tried a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean, who famously disappeared during that flight, never to be found. Some of them might say it was the Atlantic Ocean, but anyway, some kind of ocean.
And chances are that if you read the above, you didn't even bat an eye at the most egregious mistake stated there.
And what would that mistake be? The claim that it was a "solo" flight.
Indeed, for some reason there's an extremely common misconception that the vast, vast majority of people who have heard of the story of Amelia Earhart believe, that she was flying solo. That it was the first attempt by a woman at crossing the ocean as a solo flight.
But the fact is that it wasn't a solo flight. She had a copilot. A copilot that pretty much nobody remembers. Even from the absolutely microscopic minority of people who happen to know she wasn't flying solo, most of them couldn't tell his name. He is, perhaps, one of the most forgotten people in the history of humanity who was involved in a world-famous historical incident. His name was Fred Noonan.
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