"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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