List of aviators killed in aircraft crashes
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This is a chronological list of pilots that died in crashes of their airplanes. The cutoff for this list is 1915:
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[edit] 1896
- 1896 Otto Lilienthal on a glider in Germany on August 10, 1896
[edit] 1905
- 1905 Daniel Maloney in a glider in Santa Clara, California on July 18, 1905
[edit] 1908
- 1908 Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge in Fort Myer, Virginia was the first person to die in a powered aircraft on September 17, 1908. Piloting was Orville Wright. He was the first US Army air casualty, but not the first pilot to die in a crash.
[edit] 1910
- 1910 Charles Rolls in Bournemouth, England on July 12, 1910. He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident.
- 1910 Ralph Johnstone
- 1910 John B. Moisant in Kenner, Louisiana on December 31, 1910
- 1910 Archibald Hoxsey in Los Angeles, California on December 31, 1910. The New York Times listed him as the 32nd person to die in an powered aircraft fatality.
- 1910 Léon Delagrange of France
[edit] 1911
- 1911 Édouard de Nié Port on September 15, 1911
- 1911 Eugene Ely in Macon, Georgia on October 19, 1911
- 1911 John J. Montgomery in Evergreen, California on October 31, 1911
[edit] 1912
- 1912 Rutherford Page in Los Angeles, California on January 22, 1912
- 1912 Calbraith Perry Rodgers in Long Beach, California on April 3, 1912. 127th airplane fatality since aviation began. He was the 22nd American aviator to be killed.
- 1912 Ray Wheeler in St. Louis, Missouri on May 13, 1912
- 1912 Fred J. Southard in Xenia, Ohio on May 21, 1912
- 1912 Philip Orin Parmelee in North Yakima, Washington on June 1, 1912
- 1912 Lieutenant L.W. Hazlehurst and A.L. Welch in College Park, Maryland on June 11, 1912 may have been the first US Army pilot to die
- 1912 Julia Clark of Springfield, Illinois on June 1, 1912 as first woman to die in a crash
- 1912 Harriet Quimby and William A.P. Willard, in Squantum, Massachusetts on July 1, 1912
- 1912 Victor M. Smith, Jr. in Palo Alto, California on July 13, 1912
- 1912 George Thompson in Denver, Colorado on August 21, 1912
- 1912 William Chambers in Greene, New York on September 6, 1912
- 1912 Paul Peck in Chicago, Illinois on September 11, 1912
- 1912 Howard Gill in Chicago, Illinois on September 14, 1912
- 1912 Russell Blair in Shenandoah, Iowa on September 20, 1912
- 1912 Lieutenant L.C. Rockwell and Corporal F.S. Scott in College Park, Maryland on September 28, 1912
- 1912 John L. Longstaff in Hempstead, New York on September 28, 1912
- 1912 Charles F. Walsh in Trenton, New Jersey on October 3, 1912
- 1912 Kondo of Japan in Hammondsport, New York on October 6, 1912
- 1912 Louis Mitchell in Montgomery, Alabama on October 23, 1912
[edit] 1914
- 1914 Lieutenant Henry Post in San Diego, California on February 9, 1914
[edit] 1915
- 1915 Lincoln Beachey in San Francisco, California on March 14, 1915
- 1915 Walter R. Taliaferro on October 11, 1915
