Caracas Next For Air Voyage

Caracas Next for Air Voyage

SAN JUAN, P.R. (AP)—Ann Pellegreno, flying around the world on the same route that led Amelia Earhart to doom 30 years ago, took off this morning for Caracas, Venezuela.

The 30-year-old Saline, Mich., aviatrix-housewife started at Oakland, Calif., Friday after flying out of Willow Run Airport Michigan on Wednesday and is scheduled to end her global flight in July. She is piloting a Lockheed Electra 10, the same model in which Miss Earhart disappeared over the Pacific. A navigator, copilot and mechanic are flying with Mrs. Pellegreno.

Mrs. Pellegreno landed in Miami, Fla., Saturday, at Opa-Locka Airport two miles north of the now-abandoned airfield, where the Earhart flight made a stop and takeoff in 1937.

While she talked with a newsman on the telephone, Mrs. Pellegreno’s husband arrived from Detroit and interrupted the conversation with a welcoming kiss.

Mrs. Pellegreno said her flight was running a day late but "we're not pushing the old bird with any more overweight takeoffs than we have to so we stop often for fuel."

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