November 2

What happened on November 2 in aviation and space history.

• November 2, 1917

  Dr.I fleet grounded after the Gontermann and Pastor crashes

  Institutional — After the in-flight upper-wing failure of two triplanes — Heinrich Gontermann's on 29 October and Günther Pastor's on 31 October 1917, both fatal — Idflieg grounded the entire in-service Dr.I fleet on 2 November pending an inquiry.