Fatalities Among Aviators in 1910
Of the twenty-two aviators killed in 1910, John B. Moissant and Arch Hoxsey were the last, both of whom met their death on the last day of the year. On December 26 Hoxsey raised the world's record for high flying to 11,474 feet. On his fatal flight he was on a downward glide when his biplane was overturned and he fell a distance of 225 feet. A few days before Ralph Johnson met his death at Denver he predicted the death of Moissant and Hoxsey in saying, “Unless Lesseps quits, it will get him, and it will get Moissant and Grahame-White and little Hoxsey and Latham and me — all of us — sooner or later.” As Parmelee saw Hoxsey meet his doom at Los Angeles, he said: “There goes another. It won’t be long before it gets all of us. We ourselves do not realize the chances we take. Even if a warping wire were to break we would fall like a stone. When a man gets into this business he knows what he is up against, and must be ready to take the final chance.”