Wright Brothers' First Fatal Airplane Crash - ThoughtCo
WEBApr 29, 2018 · Just 5 years after the Wrights' first flight, Orville Wright was in the first fatal airplane crash, which left him severely injured and his passenger dead.
Sept. 17, 1908: First Airplane Passenger Death | WIRED
WEBSep 17, 2010 · During flight trials to win a contract from the U.S. Army Signal Corps, pilot Orville Wright and passenger Lt. Thomas Selfridge crash in a Wright Flyer at Fort Myer, Virginia. Wright is injured,...
Thomas Selfridge - Wikipedia
WEBThomas Etholen Selfridge (February 8, 1882 – September 17, 1908) was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first person to die in an airplane crash. He was also the first active-duty member of the U.S. military to die in a crash while on duty.
1908 -- First Fatality in a Powered Aircraft > Air Force Historical ...
WEBOn Sept. 17, 1908, a modified Wright Brothers aircraft crashed during a demonstration at Fort Myer, Va., seriously injuring pilot Orville Wright and killing the observer, U.S. Army Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge.
Tragedy at Fort Myer - Wright Brothers
WEBLt. Thomas Selfridge was less fortunate. He died on the operating table, the first victim of an accident in a powered aircraft. The news of Orville's accident galvanized his sister Katharine. Without hesitation, she took an indefinite leave from her teaching job in Dayton and left for Fort Myer.
Tragedy Strikes - National Museum of the USAF
WEBTragedy struck during a flight on Sept. 17, 1908, when the right propeller on the 1908 Flyer fouled a guy wire, causing the plane to crash to earth. Orville Wright was seriously injured, while Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge, along on the flight as a passenger, was fatally injured, thus becoming the first person to die as the result of an airplane ...
The First Airplane Fatality - HistoryNet
WEBAug 19, 2001 · The First Airplane Fatality. When a plane piloted by Orville Wright in 1908 crashed during a test flight, the result proved disastrous, especially for Wright's passenger, Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge. As Orville Wright made a final visual inspection of the aircraft, Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge stood nearby, failing to suppress a grin.
The Father of Crash Investigation | Smithsonian
WEBWhile riding as a passenger in a willowy, wing-warping biplane piloted by Orville Wright, U.S. Army First Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge became the first person to die during powered flight.
Flight’s First Fatal Trip - The New York Times
WEBJul 27, 2008 · A Soviet fighter plane shot it down, killing all 269 aboard. Investigators spent months trying to determine the cause of a fatal accident of a Boeing 737 in 1994 before assigning blame to the...
First Flight: How Wright Brothers Changed the World
WEBThursday, December 17, 1903, dawned windy and cold on North Carolina's Outer Banks. At Kill Devil Hills, the thermometer hovered around the freezing mark, and a 25-mile-per-hour...
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