Portal:Transport/Selected anniversaries/September 17
- 1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes; killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
- 1949 – The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives.
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