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Plane Accidents

The first powered aircraft crash

Thursday Sep 17, 1908
Fort Myer, Virginia, U.S.

The first involving a powered aircraft was the crash of a Wright Model A aircraft at Fort Myer, Virginia, in the United States on September 17, 1908, injuring its co-inventor and pilot, Orville Wright, and killing the passenger, Signal Corps Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge.


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