Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge died at 8:10 p.m. on September 17, 1908, from injuries sustained in a Wright Military Flyer crash at Fort Myer, Virginia.
Notes on verification
Corroborated by a contemporary primary source (NYT article via Wikisource) and multiple independent secondary sources (genealogy forum citing medical officers, history blog with archival research, Wikipedia). Date, time, cause, and location are consistent across all sources. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=silver indep_score=0.75 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=partial (upstreams: New York Times (September 18, 1908 report), U.S. Army accident investigation board report) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- After Thomas Selfridge (seed:firsts_and_inventions)
- https://ghostsofdc.org/2017/12/29/wright-brothers-fly-fort-myer-1909/ (corroboration)
- https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/selfridge/128/ (corroboration)
- https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Thomas_Selfridge (corroboration)