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    Who was the very first fatality in an airplane flight?

    Question #31967. Asked by Yank. (Apr 19 03 11:27 PM)


    Kainantu

    Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge died in 1909 in a plane piloted By Orville Wright at Government trials. He thus gains the distinction of being the first person killed in a powered airplane crash.
    http://vintageviews.org/vv-ny/Fj/cards/h006.html
    www.afa.org/magazine/kittyhawk/1903-13.html

    Apr 20 03, 8:34 AM


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