Ninety years since Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean

On this day in 1932, pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart touched down in Londonderry, Northern Ireland after a 15-hour transatlantic flight that started in Newfoundland, off the coast of Canada. Completing this formidable journey made her the first woman ever to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. About Earhart’s transatlantic flight Amelia Earhart was 34 years old when she took off in her single engine Lockheed Vega plane from Harbour Grace in Newfoundland on 20 May 1932.