Service scheduled for aviation students killed in accident
April 14, 2021 GMT
SYNDEY, Neb. (AP) — A memorial service will be held Saturday for two international students at Western Nebraska Community College who died at the school’s aviation maintenance building.
The school said Yemin An, 21, of Seoul, South Korea, and Zhaoxin Chen, 24, of Xi’an, China, died April 1 while working on an airplane engine inside the aviation maintenance building at the school in Sydney. Details about how the students died have not been released.
Both were sophomores in the school’s aviation maintenance technician program. The school said both were members of the Phi Theta Kappa-Alpha Rho Omicron chapter and the Aviation Voc-Air student organization.