This summer was meant to be when Anh-Thu Nguyen’s years of planning finally came to fruition. The South Florida flight instructor set out on Wednesday from Indiana to start the second leg of

"Anh-Thu was an inspiring pilot, instructor, and advocate for girls and women in aerospace, engineering, and aviation."

Anh-Thu Nguyen was killed after her plane seemingly lost control and crashed in Indiana on Wednesday morning, local officials said.

Anh-Thu Nguyen, 44, wanted to be the first Vietnamese woman to complete a solo flight around the world. Her journey ended prematurely after her airplane crashed in Greenwood, Indiana, on July 30. The Johnson County coroner has identified Nguyen,

A pilot trying to become the first Vietnamese woman to fly solo around the world was killed when her small plane crashed in Indiana. Anh-Thu Nguyen, a Vietnamese-born flight instructor, had just taken off from the Indy South Greenwood Airport bound for Pennsylvania on the second leg of her global flight when her 2005 Lancair IV-P spiraled out of the sky and crashed behind a gas station in Greenwood,

The crash happened near the intersection of East Main Street and Sheek Road, just west of I-65 and near Indy South Greenwood Airport.