Moisant stopped flying on April 14, 1912, in Wichita Falls, Texas when her plane crashed (the same day that the Titanic struck an iceberg). A few months later on 1 July 1912, her friend Harriet Quimby was killed when she was thrown from her plane. Although Moisant recovered from her injuries, she gave up flying. During World War I she volunteered at the front in France.Photo caption, The Rubber Age and Tire News (September 25, 1917): 20. She spent several years dividing her time between the U.S. and the family plantation in El Salvador, before returning to the Los Angeles area.
