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Crowds jammed every inch of the pier, waving and cheering, tossing up green balloons.

Whistles blew. Bands blasted “The Star-Spangled Banner,” drowning out the cries of souvenir hawkers and the skirling of enthusiastic bagpipers.

Who was Corrigan, and what had he done to inspire this all-out celebration?

Seventeen days earlier, he’d landed a small plane in Dublin, stepped out, and announced, “My name’s Corrigan. I left New York yesterday morning headed for California, but I got mixed up in the clouds and must have flown the wrong way.”

Corrigan was not the first pilot to fly solo all the way across the North Atlantic.

But he was the first and only one to claim that he had done it by mistake.