24 August 1913

An accident on August 24, 1913 took the lives of French aviator Olivier de Montalent, and a passenger, M. Metivier. Montalent was one of nine competitors in a hydro-aeroplane race from Le Pecq near Paris for Deauville, a seaport in the north of France. He reached Rouen third and was flying at a height of 1,000 feet as he approached the town. The waiting crowds saw the Breguet machine suddenly pitch violently and drop. The occupants were thrown out. Montalent crashed through the deck of a river barge; Metivier fell into the river. The race was won by George Chemet in a Morane-Borel monoplane.