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sep 17, 1908 - First airplane fatality and first plane death

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everything went smoothly when the plane took off on Sept. 17, 1908, but a propeller failed during its fifth circuit and the craft plummeted nose-first into the ground killing Thomas Etholen Selfridge.

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ByKameron Osborn
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sep 17, 1908
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~ 116 years ago
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