Vicki Van Meter, who made headlines in the 1990s for piloting a plane across the country at age 11 and from the U.S. to Europe at age 12, has died. She was 26.
Van Meter died Saturday of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the coroner's office in Crawford County, Pa. Her body was found Sunday in her home in the Pittsburgh suburb of Meadville.
Her brother said that she battled depression but that her family thought she had been dealing with her problems.
