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It was yesterday: 108 years ago the first victim of a powered airplane crash

Washington , USA - It was aviation pioneer Thomas Etholen Selfridge to die; Orville Wright at the controls, who was wounded

Yesterday, September 17th , fell the 108th death’s anniversary of Thomas Etholen Selfridge died in 1908. US Army’ Lieutenant, he was the first person to die in a crash of a powered airplane. The aircraft was piloted by Orville Wright, the first one ever, together with his brother Wilbur, to have made controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17th 1903. Selfridge, bor...

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Rome, Italy, 09/18/2015 13:19
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