Jane Wright is believed to have been of British ancestry and born in
Algiers, then in
French Algeria. Before coming to metropolitan France in 1911, she lived in
Algiers, then a part of France. She was the widow of Denis Cornesson. She flew in France under the name Denise Moore to hide her flying career from her family. After three weeks of flight training, Wright died on 21 July 1911 in
Étampes,
France when she fell from an inverted aircraft, an accident that occurred when she attempted to gain more altitude than had been recommended by her instructor. She was the first woman aviator to die in a plane accident. At the time, she was learning to fly at the
Henry Farman Aviation School. ==See also==