List of Air Show Accidents and Incidents - 1922

1922

• August 15 - Puck, Poland - during a bombing show, an observer prematurely dropped a bomb from a Lübeck-Travemünde F.4 floatplane into spectators, killing 13 persons and injuring 34.

• June 17 - Louisville, Kentucky - Army airmen Lieutenant Robert O. Hanley and Sergeant Arthur Opperman are killed when their aircraft crashed while making a sharp banking turn. The men were airborne to photograph the airshow that was to shortly begin.

• September 23 – Mitchel Field, Mineola, New York – A Martin NBS-1 bomber, AS-68487, Raymond E. Davis, pilot, nose dived and crashed from an estimated altitude of 500 feet on a residential street killing the six military personnel on board. At the time, the plane was involved in a night time war game display that was lit by searchlights and watched by an estimated crowd of 25,000 spectators.