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On the night of September 16, 1926, twenty-four-year-old pilot Charles A. Lindbergh was on a regular airmail flight from St. Louis to Chicago. Unable to land at Chicago because of heavy fog, he turned back but soon ran out of fuel, forcing him to parachute to safety into a cornfield. His plane crashed nearby. When local farmer Francis Johnson discovered Lindbergh emerging from the field carrying his parachute, he gave the young pilot a ride to the nearby Jason DeBolt home where Lindbergh spent the rest of the night. Lindbergh achieved worldwide acclaim on May 21, 1927, when he completed the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris.
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