Vicki Van Meter, celebrated for piloting a plane across the country [U.S.] at age 11 and from the U.S. to Europe at age 12, has died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Crawford County coroner said. She was 26.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/...it_van_meter_3
NY Times article on her original cross country attempt in 1993:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...5AC0A965958260