Vicki Van Meter

Pilot Vicki Van Meter, who first became famous for flying a plane across the country when she was only 11-years-old, died at 26 in early 2008.

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Vicki Van Meter|youngest pilot died in March 2008

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Tracking Back 2008: Vicki Van Meter was an American pilot known for setting several youngest-pilot distance-flying records. At age 11, she was 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. Vicki Van Meter,the Pennsylvanian who was celebrated for piloting a plane across the country at age 11 and from the United States to Europe at age 12, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Her body was found March 16,2008. As a sixth-grader in September 1993, Van Meter flew from Augusta, Maine, to San Diego over five ... Read Full Story

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