Female Pilot Killed in Crash of AF Jet
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
An A-10 attack plane has crashed at a desert training range, killing one of just 14 women flying fighter jets for the Air Force. The plane went down in southwestern Arizona. Capt. Amy Lynn Svoboda was the Air Force’s first female pilot to die in a crash, a Pentagon spokesman said. Svoboda, 29, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., was about two hours into a training flight, a base spokesman said.
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