In 1936, Beryl Markham took off from England alone hoping to reach New York; 20 hours later ice starved her engine and she crash-landed in Canada after becoming the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo east-to-west

On the evening of 4 September 1936 a turquoise-and-silver monoplane left an airfield in Oxfordshire and set out for the Atlantic. Darkness lay ahead.

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