On April 17, 1938, Andrew Carnegie Whitfield, a 28-year-old business executive and nephew of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, vanished after taking off in his silver and red Taylor Cub monoplane from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York. Whitfield, an accomplished amateur pilot with 200 hours of flying experience, was scheduled for a brief 15-minute flight to an airfield in Brentwood, approximately 22 miles away. His plane, which had enough fuel for a 150-mile journey, never arrived at its des
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