Date
Aviator
Nationality
Location
  Aeroplane Cause
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17 September 1908
Lt Thomas Selfridge
American
Fort Myer, Virginia
  Wright biplane Propeller breakage
 

7 September 1909
Eugène Lefebvre
French
Juvisy, France
  Wright biplane Control failure
 

22 September 1909
Capt Ferdinand Ferber
French
Boulogne-sur-mer, France
  Wright biplane Crash while taxiing on ground
 

6 December 1909
Antonio Fernandez
Spanish
Nice, France
  Fernandez biplane Wing collapse
 

2 January 1910
Aindan de Zoseley
Hungarian
Budapest, Hungary
  de Zoseley Loss of control
 

4 January 1910
Léon Delagrange
French
Bordeaux, France
  Blériot monoplane Wing collapse
 

2 April 1910
Hubert Le Blon
French
San Sebastián, Spain
  Blériot monoplane Engine failure
 

13 May 1910
Jules Hauvette-Michelin
French
Lyons, France
  Antoinette monoplane Collision with flagpole on ground
 

18 June 1910
Thaddeus Robl
German
Stettin, Germany
  Aviatik biplane Wind gust
 

3 July 1910
Charles Wachter
French
Reims, France
  Antoinette monoplane Wing collapse
 

12 July 1910
Charles Rolls
British
Bournemouth, England
  Wright biplane Tail collapse
 

13 July 1910
Daniel Kinet
Belgian
Ghent, Belgium
  Henri Farman biplane Broken rudder
 

3 August 1910
Nicholas Kinet
Belgian
Liège, Belgium
  Henri Farman biplane Rear wire tangled in motor
 

20 August 1910
Lt Pasqua Vivaldi
Italian
Rome, Italy
  Maurice Farman biplane Loss of control
 

27 August 1910
Clément van Maasdyck
Dutch
Arnhem, Netherlands
  Sommer biplane Loss of control
 

25 September 1910
Edmond Poillot
French
Chartres, France
  Savary biplane Wind gust
 

27 September 1910
Jorge Chavez
Peruvian
Domodossola, Italy
  Blériot monoplane Numbness due to cold (crashed on 23 Sept)
 

28 September 1910
Ernest Plochmann
German
Habsheim, Germany
  Henri Farman biplane Loss of control
 

1 October 1910
Lt Heinrich Haas
German
Welle, Germany
  Wright biplane Propeller chain breakage
 

7 October 1910
Capt Levko Matsievitch
Russian
St Petersburg, Russia
  Henri Farman biplane Control failure
 

24 October 1910
Louis-Gabriel Madiot
French
Douai, France
  Breguet biplane Illness in flight
 

25 September 1910
Lt Wilhelm Mente
German
Magdeburg, Germany
  Wright biplane Loss of control
 

26 October 1910
Fernand Blanchard
French
Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
  Blériot monoplane Control failure
 

27 October 1910
Lt Guiseppi Saglietti
Italian
Rome, Italy
  Wright biplane Loss of control
 

17 November 1910
Ralph Johnstone
American
Denver, Colorado
  Wright biplane Machine breakup
 

3 December 1910
Walter Archer
American
Salida, Colorado
  Archer Loss of control
 

3 December 1910

Lt Enrico Cammarota
Pvt Giovanni Castellani

Italian
Rome, Italy
  Henri Farman biplane Machine breakup
 

22 December 1910
Cecil Grace
British
English Channel
  Short biplane Unknown
 

28 December 1910
Guilio Picollo
Italian
São Paulo, Brazil
  Antoinette monoplane Struck by tail of machine on ground
 

28 December 1910
Aléxandre Laffont
Marquis de Pola

French
Spanish

Paris, France
  Antoinette monoplane Wing collapse
 

30 December 1910
Lt Jacques de Caumont
French
St Cyr, France
  Nieuport monoplane Loss of control
 

31 December 1910
John Moisant
American
New Orleans, Louisiana
  Blériot monoplane Wind gust
 

31 December 1910
Arch Hoxsey
American
Los Angeles, California
  Wright biplane Machine breakup

For further detail, see Aircraft Deaths - Fixed Wing Only

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