41. Four of the RAAF's Hornets were destroyed in flying accidents during the late 1980s and early 1990s. 42. Helmut Meckel was killed on 8 May 1943 in a flying accident during the evacuation of Tunis. 43. In March 1936 Hopkinson was injured in a flying accident , aviation having long been a private hobby. 44. He died in a flying accident while testing one of his own designs, the AEG D . I. 45. Tinling joined the Royal Air Force, but was invalided out following a flying accident in the early 1930s. 46. He attained the rank of Pilot Officer, but was killed in a flying accident on 14 July 1923. 47. Charles was the first British person to die in a flying accident when his plane crashed in 1910. 48. Hor�k and his family returned to Britain and the RAF; he died in a flying accident in December 1948. 49. It was nicknamed " the flying coffin " and killed more pilots in flying accidents than died in combat. 50. On 9 July 1918 McCudden was killed in a flying accident when his aircraft crashed following an engine fault.
