Airman Killed By Turks.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 1, 1912:
Popoff the First Aviator to Lose His Life by an Enemy's Fire.
    LONDON, Oct. 31.— The first air victim of the war was the Russian aviator Popoff, until recently an instructor in aviation in the Russian Army. He and several others left Russia a few days ago to offer their services to the Bulgarian Army. While flying with his machine over Adrianople he was brought down by Turkish shrapnel shells.
    Reports received here say he was killed.
    Popoff is the first aviator to be killed by the enemy in a war. Another airman who came near to losing his life in war was Capt. Monte, an Italian military airman. Capt. Monte last Feb. 1, while the Italian-Turkish war was in progress made a flight, and while in the air throwing bombs into an Arab encampment, near Topruk, Cyrenaica, the Arabs responded with rifle fire. The aeroplane was struck four times by the Arabs' bullets, one of which hit Capt. Monte, wounding him severely. Capt. Monte was, however, able to return to his camp with some valuable information.
    Two other airmen have been killed during war, but these lost their lives in accidental falls. On Aug. 28 Lieut. Mazini of the Italian Army was killed by a fall on the Tripoli coast, and last Monday a Bulgarian airman was killed by a fall. He was making a flight over Adrianople and trying to make maps of the Turkish defense works. His motor stopped when he was over the Turkish camp at Fort Yildiz and the machine fell about 1,500 feet.