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Following Nick's death after a car crash in 1988, Grace learned to fly the Spitfire. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1990, she made her first solo Spitfire flight and qualified as a pilot for the aircraft. [ 5 ] While female pilots had flown the Spitfire during World War II as part of the Air Transport Auxiliary , Grace was the first qualified female pilot ever ...
[a] She was hired in 1976 by American Airlines as their third female pilot. [2] In 1986, Bass became the first female captain of a commercial plane at American Airlines [3] and later that year she captained the first all-female crew in the history of commercial jet aviation, on an American Airlines flight from Washington D.C. to Dallas, Texas.
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.
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 ...
Jul. 7—A pilot died after crashing a Cessna single-engine airplane Thursday morning near St. Maries, Idaho. The pilot, whose identity has not been released, was the only person aboard the small ...
The wife of longtime ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman died in a car accident on Tuesday in Connecticut.
Kara S. Hultgreen [1] (October 5, 1965 – October 25, 1994) was an American naval aviator who served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy and was the first female carrier-based fighter pilot in the U.S. Navy. She was also the first female fighter pilot in the U.S. military to die in a crash. [2]
A volunteer pilot flying three rescue dogs to a care facility in upstate New York died along with one of the dogs after his plane crashed in the state's Catskill Mountains, according to officials.