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Fun fact. Wiley Post was a parachute jumper, test pilot, discoverer of the jet stream, and the inventor of the pressurized flight suit. In 1933 he became the first man to fly alone around the earth in just seven days, 18 hours, and 49 1/2 minutes.

On August 15, 1935, Wiley Post and Will Rogers were flying together in a Lockheed hybrid airplane when they crashed just 15 miles outside of Point Barrow, Alaska. The engine had stalled just after take-off, causing the plane to nose-dive and crash into a lagoon.

36 years (1898–1935) Wiley Post / Age at death

Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 – August 15, 1935) was a famed American aviator during the interwar period and the first pilot to fly solo around the world.

On October 1, 1926, Post was badly injured in an oil-rig accident when a piece of metal pierced his left eye (an infection permanently blinded him in that eye, and he typically wore an eyepatch thereafter), but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.

Will RogersDiedAugust 15, 1935 (aged 55) Point Barrow, Alaska Territory, U.S.Cause of deathAirplane crashResting placeWill Rogers Memorial in Claremore, OklahomaNationalityCherokee Nation United States12 more rows

Will Rogers and Wiley Post bid farewell to a small crowd gathered at Fairbanks, Alaska, on August 15, 1935. They would perish in an airplane crash later that day. Post modified a hybrid Lockheed Orion/Explorer specifically for the trip to Russia by adding pontoons for water landings.