First Taiwanese pilot to circle the globe dead in U.S. plane crash

The first Taiwanese pilot to fly across the world on a single-engine airplane died Friday after the small plane he was operating crashed at San Gabriel Valley Airport in El Monte, Los Angeles, Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry confirmed Saturday.

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