This is not true.
You almost got me. But not quite. My memory wasn’t so bad after all.
Yes he didn’t directly die from the crash. But he piloted a flight that became fatal for a passenger.
“Orville Wright was disentangled from the crash first. He was bloody but conscious. Thomas Selfridge wasn't so lucky. When he was finally dislodged from the wreckage, he was bloody and unconscious. He was never to regain consciousness.
Both men were rushed to the nearby hospital on stretchers. Selfridge was operated on that night, but he died of a fractured skull. He was the first person ever to die in a plane crash. Selfridge was buried with military honors at Arlington National cemetery.
Orville Wright had escaped death, but he did have a broken leg, several broken ribs, cuts on his head, and several bruises. He was released from the hospital on October 31st. Although he was to walk and fly again, he suffered pain from his fractured hip of the rest of his life.
Wilbur Wright died in 1912. But younger brother Orville survived until 1948, a full forty years after piloting the first fatal plane crash.”