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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Several people work to put a man on a stretcher in a field with a crashed airplane on its side in the background. A soldier on a horse is in the foreground.

Aircraft Crash

Medical personnel tend to either Orville Wright or his airplane passenger, Army 1st Lt. Thomas Selfridge, after an early version of the Wright Military Flyer crashed at Fort Myer, Va., in August 1908. Selfridge died as a result of the incident.

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