Two Teens in Aviation Program Die in Crash
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From Times Wire Reports
A weekend plane crash near Seattle killed two pupils from a special school for teenagers interested in careers in the aviation industry, school officials said. A third person also died in the crash near Paine Field north of Seattle.
The two girls, both ninth-graders at Aviation High School in the Highline School District, were participating in the Young Eagles program, which gives students their first light-aircraft flights with volunteer pilots from the Experimental Aircraft Assn.
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