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.
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.
Wright brothers - Wikipedia
WEBSelfridge suffered a fractured skull in the crash and died that evening in the nearby Army hospital, becoming the first airplane crash fatality. Orville was badly injured, suffering a broken left leg and four broken ribs.
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.
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,...
Tragedy Strikes > National Museum of the United States Air …
WEBOrville 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 accident.
The Wright Brothers | National Air and Space Museum
WEBThe Wright brothers’ invention of the airplane, starting with the 1903 Wright Flyer, truly changed the world. Imagining what this new world would be like began as soon as the first airplanes took to the air in the early 1900s. The 1909 Wright Military Flyer is the world's first military airplane.
The Father of Crash Investigation | Smithsonian
WEBSeptember 2018. Bystanders crouch over Thomas Selfridge, pulled from the wrecked Wright Model A. While riding as a passenger in a willowy, wing-warping biplane piloted by Orville Wright, U.S....
The First Airplane Fatality - HistoryNet
WEBAug 19, 2001 · 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.
The Wright Brothers and the First Flight of an Airplane
WEBJul 3, 2019 · After two attempts to fly this machine, one of which resulted in a minor crash, Orville Wright took the Flyer for a 12-second, sustained flight on December 17, 1903. This was the first successful powered and piloted flight in history.
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