US aviation pioneer dies in plane crash (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Famed test pilot and aviation pioneer Scott Crossfield, the first man to travel at twice the speed of sound, died when his plane crashed in the US state of Georgia, the Civil Air Patrol said. He was 84.

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Posted April 20, 2006

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