26 January 1914

British aviator George Lancelot Gipps was killed in an airplane accident on January 26th 1914 while training in a dual control Bristol Prier monoplane trainer on Salisbury plain. Instructor pilot F. Warren Merriam, who survived the mishap, stated that Gipps mishandled the controls and then held tightly to them, preventing Merriam from saving the situation.