List of missing aircraft
1900–1919

List of missing aircraft

Section Title: 1900–1919
Table Section Text: None

Date	Aircraft	People missing	Type of incident	Location	Remarks

October 17, 1908	Pampero (coal gas balloon)	2 (Eduardo Newbery & Eduardo Romero)	Unknown	River Plate, Argentina	First Argentines ever to perish in an aircraft accident.

October 18, 1910	America (non-rigid airship)	0	Abandonment	N Atlantic, west of Bermuda	Occupants rescued by merchant vessel.

December 22, 1910	Cecil Grace No. 3 (Short S.27)	1 (Cecil Grace)	Unknown	English Channel en route from Calais to Dover	Returning from unsuccessful attempt at Baron de Forest Prize. Body possibly found on March 14, 1911.

June 5, 1911	Blériot XI	1 (Édouard Bague)	Unknown	Mediterranean, near Cap d'Antibes	Attempted 1st flight across the Mediterranean.

April 18, 1912	Blériot XI	1 (Damer Leslie Allen)	Unknown	Irish Sea, west of Anglesey	Attempted 1st flight from Wales to Ireland

October 13, 1913	Blériot XI	1 (Albert Jewell)	Unknown	N Atlantic, off Long Island, New York	Intended to compete in the New York Times American Aerial Derby.

March 14, 1914	Manuel Rodríguez (biplane)	1 (Alejandro Bello Silva)	Unknown	Central Chile	Silva was undertaking a military training flight to become a pilot.

May 23, 1914	Morane-Saulnier (model unknown)	1 (Gustav Hamel)	Unknown	English Channel en route from Hardelot to Hendon Aerodrome	An unidentified corpse was found on July 6, 1914 that might have been Hamel's.

November 7, 1917	LZ60 (Zeppelin)	0	Storm loss	North Sea	This Zeppelin was unmanned when it broke free of its mooring and drifted away.

June 2, 1919	Sopwith Camel	1 (Mansell Richard James)	Unknown	New England en route from Boston to New York City	James was involved in an air race from Boston to New York City. Although wreckage was found, it was never positively identified.

December 9, 1919	Martinsyde (type A Mk.I)	2 (Cedric Howell & George H. Fraser)	Unknown	St George's Bay, Corfu	These two men were involved in an air race from England to Australia. The airframe & corpse of Cedric Howell (pilot) were eventually recovered.

Sentence(s)

Damer Leslie Allen disappeared in April 1912 while attempting to fly from Wales to Ireland in a Blériot plane.

final_sentence: Damer Leslie Allen disappeared in April 1912 while attempting to fly from Wales to Ireland in a Blériot plane.