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Originally Posted by Rain Man
No idea.
I do remember that the whole thing was bogus, too. There was some setup where she was only flying a small proportion of the time that the plane was in the air, too. Apparently the wrong proportion.
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Aha. Doesn't say she died, however:
In 1993, Victoria Van Meter, 11 years old, became the youngest girl to fly across the United States. Her flight instructor sat alongside her the entire way, but never once took the controls.