A victim of having tried to do too much while still a child was Victoria "Vicki Van Meter of Meadville,Pennsylvania. She was the youngest pilot to fly across the continental United States.
This feat was accomplished in a Cessna light aircraft in 1993; Van Meter, then age 11, accompanied by a flight instructor, crossed the nation with the young girl at the controls, going from Maine to California--quite an accomplishment for a sixth grader.
Much celebrity-style publicity followed this flight, and in 1994, she flew another Cessna from Maine to Scotland.
After finishing college as a criminal justice major, she spent a tour in the Peace Corps in Moldova, then became an insurance company investigator.
Van Meter suffered from depression and took her own life by gunshot in 2008.
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