Amy Johnson By Emanuele Anderson

Early life Amy Johnson was born in Kingston upon Hull on the 1 of July in 1903. After university, she worked in London as secretary to the lawyer William Crocker. She was introduced to flying as a hobby, obtaining a pilot's Licence in 1929, at the London Aeroplane Club. Very few women could fly at the time. In that same year, she became the first British woman to obtain a ground engineer's licence.

Family Her parents, John William Johnson and Amy Johnson, were strong supporters of Amy. When she was 29, in 1932, Johnson married famous Scottish pilot Jim Mollison, who had, during a flight together, proposed to her only eight hours after they had met. They flew together many times, but sadly they divorced in 1938.

Aviation career Amy’s father, always one of her strongest supporters, offered to help her buy an aircraft when he understood that this was the gilr’s great passion. She purchased a second-hand plane she named "Jason“. Amy Johnson achieved worldwide recognition when, in 1930, she became the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia. In 1933, while fliyng in the USA with her husband, she crash-landed in Connecticut, where both were injured. During the second Wrold War she joined the Army, flying the Royal Air Force planes

Death On 5 January 1941, while flying from Blackpool, North of England, to Oxford, Johnson went off course in bad weather conditions. Reportedly out of fuel, she drowned after falling into the Thames Estuary. Although she was seen alive in the water, a rescue attempt failed and her body was never recovered. There is still some mystery about the accident, as the exact reason for the flight is still a government secret, but in 1999 a former English pilot declared that in 1941, during the war, he had shot Amy’s plane down when she hadn’t answered with the right password when asked

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