8 July 1913

HOUSTON, Texas, July 8, 1913 - Lieutenant Loren H. Call of the Second Division, U.S.A. Aero Squadrom, dropped nearly 1,000 feet at Texas City this morning and was instantly killed. It was supposed that the aeroplane struck a current of warm air that tilted the machine, and the biplane, a six-cylinder Wright Model C, came crashing to the earth. Lieutenant Call's death makes a total of nine fatalities in the Army and Navy since experiments began with heavier-than-air machines in 1908. Eight of the fatalities occurred in the Army, while the Navy has lost only one officer.