[DOC] [TLE] Thomas Selfridge - Wikipedia [PAR] Thomas Etholen Selfridge (February 8, 1882  September 17, 1908) was a first 
lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He became the first person to die in a crash of a 
powered airplane when a ... There, he was one of three pilots trained to fly the 
Army Dirigible Number One, purchased in July, 1908 from Thomas Scott Baldwin. 
He was... [DOC] [TLE] Wright Brother's First Fatal Airplane Crash - 20th Century History [PAR] Just five years after the Wrights' first flight, Orville Wright was in the first fatal 
airplane ... The 1908 Crash That Almost Killed Orville Wright and Did Kill One 
Other ... It had only been five years since Orville and Wilbur Wright made their 
famous flight at ... He had taken his first official passenger, Lt. Frank P. Lahm, into 
the air on... [DOC] [TLE] Chevrons in the Clouds: USAF Enlisted History Research [PAR] As aircraft and piloting became more perfected, the utilization of aircraft as a ... in 
the Civil War, to the military jets and helicopters of today, there has been 
someone at ... the rst military aircraft. in August 1908, the aircraft, a Wright '0' 
yer, was delivered ... 1911, he had become a top mechanic for the edgling aero 
division. [DOC] [TLE] Pilot Quotes  Aviation Quotes - Quotes and Sayings [PAR] Jul 3, 2016 ... Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death I Shall Fear No Evil For I am 80,000 ... It 
is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. .... A pilot who says 
he has never been frightened in an airplane is, I'm afraid, lying. .... There are 
airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view... [DOC] [TLE] NEW ZEALAND DISASTERS AND TRAGEDIES ... - Freepages [PAR] 11 November 1920 - A terrible aviation fatality, involving three deaths, ... From his 
first election as a councillor till his election as Mayor, he had always taken a ... 
The pilot of the Avro machine, Captain Russell, was one of the New Zealand ..... 
There are about 200 New Zealanders in the Air Force altogether, and as this is 
the... [DOC] [TLE] fact of the day 12.10.2016 | Rooster Teeth [PAR] Oct 12, 2016 ... The sad honor of first planecrash fatality belonged to Thomas Selfridge, first ... 
into the remaining wires (there were a lot of wires on planes back then). Thomas 
Selfridge had misfortune to also strike one of the wooden supports with ... He 
died 3 hours later despite being underwent neurological surgery. [DOC] [TLE] chapter iii - flight in england - Read Books Online, Over 10000 Free ... [PAR] The English pioneers of flight, who had learned their flying abroad, brought back 
their ... In 1903 the Wrights first flew in a power-driven machine. ... In 1906 he was 
appointed chief instructor in kiting, and in 1908 he built for himself an ..... the 
finest pilots in his day that this country had produced, who was killed in an 
accident... [DOC] [TLE] the century book - City of Escanaba [PAR] had lost their culture but had found a soul, discovered a world and lost their 
homeland. d .... According to accounts published at the time of his death, he .... 
mile off shore at Misery Bay, near Ford River. ...... 1927 he flew from San 
Francisco to Hawaii, first man to pilot a plane across the Pacific. ...... In February 
of 1908 the. [DOC] [TLE] Timeline 1908-1909 - Timelines of History [PAR] Lt. General Robert S.S. Baden-Powell, had achieved fame as a hero in the .... 
1908 Mar 13, Jerusalem's inhabitants saw their first automobile owned by ... 1908 
Mar 21, Frenchman Henri Farman carried a passenger in a bi-plane for the first 
time. .... survived crucifixion and migrated to Kashmir, where he died a natural 
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previous race? ...

Question: In 1908 he had the misfortune of piloting the first plane in which there was a fatality
Answer: Orville Wright