Franz Reichelt’s Death Jump off the Eiffel Tower (1912) | British Pathé

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A tragic 1912 test of a homemade parachute ends in death, highlighting early aviation experimentation and engineering failures.

Linked by 20 independent sites, 3 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including abril.com.br, afisha.ru, wissenschaft.de, devby.io, futilitycloset.com.

Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including 1912 in aviation.