Tragedy Strikes The Wright Brothers

 

 


 

Tragedy Strikes The Wright Brothers

Sept. 17, 1908. Tragedy struck during a flight on September 17 when the right propeller on the 1908 Flyer fouled a guy wire, causing the plane to crash to earth. Orville Wright was seriously injured, while Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge, along on the flight as a passenger, was fatally injured, thus becoming the first person to die as the result of an airplane accident.

 
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