Accidents
Chinese Entrepreneur Dies in Atlanta Crash
The crash remains under investigation.

Chen Wei, who in 2011 became the first Chinese national to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine aircraft, died in the crash of his Cessna Citation on December 20, 2018. Chen's much-publicized trip around the world in his TBM-700 (N168CW) passed through Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Scotland, France, Italy, Greece, Saudi Arabia, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China, Russia, and back to the U.S, lasted 69 days and 110 flying hours, and raised more than $250,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. On the same trip, he became the first pilot to land a private aircraft at Beijing's Capital Airport.