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The First Person to Die in an Airplane
Five years after the Wright brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk, Army Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge climbed aboard an airplane with Orville Wright. He never came back alive. The first fatal airplane crash happened on September 17, 1908. More than a century later, flight is safer and more sophisticated than Selfridge could have imagined, but this week’s NewsChopper4 crash in Los Angeles was a grim reminder that flying still carries risk.
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