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Indepth Arts News:
"Head of Smithsonian Air and Space Museum killed in Glider Crash"
1999-07-14 until 1999-07-14
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC,
USA United States of America
The head
of the Smithsonian Institution's National
Air and Space Museum died Tuesday
when the glider he was in broke apart
and crashed, authorities said.
Killed along with Donald Engen was
William Ivans, an internationally known
pilot from La Jolla, California, who was
piloting the motorized glider.
Engen, 75, had been director of the National Air and Space Museum in
Washington, D.C., since 1996. He also was administrator of the Federal
Aviation Administration in the mid-1980s, and prior to that served on the
National Transportation Safety Board.
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