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October 5

• 1930 - British airship R.101 crashes in France while en route to India. Forty-seven people are killed.

• 1918 - French famous pilot Lt Roland Garros is shot down and killed in combat.

• 1914 - Sgt Joseph Frantz and Cpl Louis Quenault of Escadrille VB24 score the first air-to-air kill of the war, shooting down a German Aviatik B.II with machine gun fire from their Voisin III over Jonchery, Reims.

• 1908 - the Zeppelin-airship LZ IV destroyed by fire at Echterdingen.

• 1905 - Wilbur Wright makes a flight of 24.2 miles (38.9 km) in Flyer III (right). The flight lasts for almost 39:23 minutes at Huffman Prairie in Ohio.