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Thomas Selfridge: The First Airplane Fatality (amusingplanet.com)
delichon 44 minutes ago [-]
Bah, there's a report of an earlier one in Ovid's Metamorphoses from 8 CE.

http://messybeast.com/dragonqueen/icarus-accident.htm

expedition32 17 minutes ago [-]
When KLM started flying Amsterdam-Batavia in the 1930s it was dangerous but people preferred it to spending weeks on a ship.
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