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This chapter argues that when Gertie overshot the Syracuse airport, she would have ventured over a region not only remote, but topographically manifold. The chapter investigates how far did Gertie stray, and in which of these places, if any, did she end up? With no flight plan, no radio contact or any other means to track the plane, the chapter underlines that the only clues are from leads—some vague and some vivid—from people who heard her or are said to have heard her circling. The chapter chronicles that the population density throughout the northern reaches of upstate New York was low, clustered mostly in villages, towns, small cities, and military bases tucked among expanses of water and mountains, fields and woodland. It examines the report which came from one Robert Hall of Morrison Road in the hamlet of North Gouverneur, nearly one hundred miles north of where Ponder was reportedly trying to land in Syracuse. The chapter analyzes some reports at the Coast Guard station on Galloo Island, a residence at nearby Henderson Harbor, and a dispatcher for the New York Central Railroad in the town of Philadelphia, northeast of Watertown, who heard an aircraft between 2 and 3 a.m. The chapter pays attention to the report of a low-flying aircraft in the town of Scriba, thirty miles north of Syracuse and just east of Oswego.
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