10 April 1914

Heinrich Hermann Reichelt, a partner in the AERO Flugzeugbau- und Fliegerschule Gesellschaft at the Dresden-Kaditz airport, set several records for distance flights. He was killed on 10 April 1914 when something went wrong with one of the wings of his Harlan monoplane and it fell from a height of 500 metres. His passenger, Fraulein Selma Steglitsch, was thrown from the machine and killed instantly, while Reichelt died in hospital a few hours later. He left his wife and three sons.