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| | Thomas Etholen Selfridge, First Lieutenant, United States Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | He became the first military air casualty when a plane in which he was a passenger, and which was piloted by Orville Wright, crashed during Army performance tests at Fort Myer, Virginia, on September 17, 1908. |
 | | He was next assigned to a board conducting the first trials of the Wright airplane to see if it could fly 40 miles an hour, carry two persons aloft, and be portable enough to be transported by a mule-drawn wagon. |
 | | Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge, of the signal corps, was killed, and Orville Wright, the aviator, received a fractured thigh and two broken ribs, late yesterday afternoon, when the lather's aeroplane plunged to earth during an experimental flight over the drill grounds at Fort Myer. |
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