What the records say
- When
- 12 May 1902
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 47.00° N, 2.00° E
- Description
- explosion of an experimental hydrogen airship in 1902
- Deaths
- 2
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Pax airship disaster
Explosion of an experimental hydrogen airship in 1902
The Pax airship disaster was the explosion of the Pax airship on May 12, 1902, in Paris, which killed the Brazilian inventor Augusto Severo and the French mechanic Georges Saché.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Brazilian aeronaut Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão and Georges Saché, his French mechanic, are killed when Severo's airship Pax catches fire and…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victime d'un incendie en vol, le ballon dirigeable Pax s'abat avenue du Maine, entraînant la mort du pionnier brésilien de l'aérostation Augusto Severo de…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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