Vietnamese-born pilot shares haunting last message before fatal crash

Vietnamese-born pilot shares haunting last message before fatal crash. Anh-Thu Nguyen, 44, of Washington, set out on Monday to become the first Vietnamese-American woman to fly solo around the globe in a single-engine airplane, following six years of meticulous preparation as a flight instructor. But on Wednesday, her 2005 Lancair IV-P suddenly spiraled out of the sky, plummeting to the ground and crashing behind a gas station in Greenwood, Indiana.