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on 17 April 1912. At 5am (local time) in the morning he left his house with a photograph of his girlfriend on his heart and told her that he was going to commit suicide. He flew with his plane to an altitude of 500 metres(1640 feet) where he flew for around 45 minutes. He descended to 200 metres(656
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