in history. Although the failed test flight on December 14 would be mostly forgotten in aviation, it remains one of the earliest recorded aviation accidents in history.

In the early years of air travel, accidents were exceedingly common. In 1928 and 1929, the overall accident rate was about 1 in every million miles (1.6 million kilometers) flown. In today's industry, that accident rate would translate to about 7,000 fatal accidents each year.

For the ten-year period 2002 to 2011, 0.6 fatal accidents happened per one million flights

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