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Jessica Whitney Dubroff (May 5, 1988 – April 11, 1996) was a seven-year-old American trainee pilot who died while attempting to become the youngest person to fly a light aircraft across the United States.
Marten Hartwell [1] (1925 – April 2, 2013) [2]: 18 [3] [4] was a German-Canadian bush pilot in the Canadian Arctic. [3] On November 8, 1972, the plane that Hartwell was flying on a medical evacuation crashed. [3] One passenger was killed on impact, another died shortly after, and the pilot had two broken ankles and could not walk. [3]
Ellen Evak Paneok (October 17, 1959 – March 2, 2008) was the first Alaskan woman of indigenous ancestry to become a licensed pilot. Paneok was a bush pilot, an author and an artist. She was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2012.
The plane did not land on or collide with any other vehicles when it crashed, but an unoccupied vehicle nearby caught fire as a result of the incident, Plano police said.
Seuk Kim, 49, was a pilot, animal rescuer and father of three. On Sunday, Seuk Kim was flying three dogs from Maryland to a shelter in upstate New York when he hit turbulence and poor visibility.
Officials on Sunday released the name of a pilot who died in a skydiving flight after her passengers jumped from the aircraft near the Niagara Falls. Melanie Georger, 26, was the only person on ...
Victoria Louise Van Meter (March 13, 1982 – March 15, 2008 [1]) was an American aviator.She was known for setting several distance-flying records for child pilots. At the age of 11, she became the youngest pilot to fly east to west across the continental United States of America, and the youngest female pilot to cross in either direction.
Bush performed part-time Guard duty as an F-102 pilot through April 1972, logging a total of 336 flight hours. [9] Before April 1972, Bush had fulfilled more than the required hours of service, but with more than two years remaining before his discharge. He volunteered his services on several projects, including a political campaign.