Navy Lt. [Kara Hultgreen], who had dreamed as a teen-ager of being an astronaut and then became the first woman qualified as an F-14 combat pilot, was killed when her plane crashed during a training mission, the Navy announced Wednesday.

A high school basketball and tennis star and later an expert surfer, Hultgreen gave several interviews when she qualified in August as an F-14 pilot. She stressed both the exhilaration and the danger of flying the F-14.

In her second attempt, in August, Hultgreen qualified. Another woman pilot, Lt. Carey Lohrenz, has also qualified in the F-14, but Hultgreen did so first, Navy officials said.