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The day before an airshow, her mechanic William Wills was flying an airplane. Bessie was going over the plane and had no seatbelt on. A wrench got into the gearbox and jammed it, causing the plane to taildive and crash. Bessie fell 1500 feet and died. :(

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Bessie Coleman died around 7:30 p.m. accompanied by her mechanic and publicity agent William Wills while flying the plane up for a test flight.When Bessie put the plane an a altitude of 110 mile per hour power dive.The plane flipped over and Bessie who had an unfastened seat belt and did not have a parachute was thrown from the plane and plunged to her death while Wills trapped by the plane died upon impact.

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She died in a plane crash in Chicago in 1934.

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She died falling out of an airplane. They did not have seat belts back then.

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8y ago
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Ms. Bessie Blount died of old age.

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you cant say anything because yall raices

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She was ABOUT 34 years old when she died

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