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2015-08-08T07:15:42-04:00 2015-08-08T07:15:42-04:00 PO1 John Miller 874215

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><br />Thanks for sharing!

2015-08-08T07:18:59-04:00 2015-08-08T07:18:59-04:00 LTC Stephen C. 875445

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="517979" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/517979-154f-ch-47f-pilot-des-osd">CW3 Private RallyPoint Member</a>, and one month and a few days later (17 September 1908), Orville crashed an airplane at Fort Myer with Army Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge aboard. Unfortunately, Selfridge was killed, thus becoming the first fatality in a powered airplane.

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