It had only been five years since Orville and Wilbur Wright
made their famous
flight at Kitty Hawk. By 1908, the Wright brothers were traveling across
the United States and Europe in order to demonstrate their flying machine.
Everything went well until that fateful day in September that began with a
cheering crowd of 2,000 and ended with pilot Orville Wright severely injured
and passenger Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge dead.
A Wright
Brothers aeroplane crash-landing at Fort Myer, Virginia, injuring Orville
Wright and killing his passenger Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, who thus became
the first man to die in a powered aeroplane.
(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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