16 February 1914

The U.S. Army Signal Corps experienced a spate of fatal accidents in 1912 and 1913, most involving the Wright Model C airplane. An investigative board of aviators including Captain Townsend F. Dodd and Lieutenants Benjamin D. Foulois, Walter R. Taliaferro, Carleton G. Chapman, and Joseph E. Carberry, condemned not just the Wright C but all "pusher" aircraft as unsafe on February 16, 1914, and those remaining in the Army inventory were ordered to be immediately grounded.