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BY KYLIE MCGIVERN
ANCHOR ALLIE SPILLYARDS
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Some say history repeats itself.
But one attempt to do so fell short -- when two Ohio men died in a plane crash Saturday, flying the replica of a Wright brothers plane.
CNN has more...
President of Wright-B Flyer: "Mitch and Don were highly competent pilots with extensive experience flying Wright 'B' Flyer airplanes and other experimental aircraft... The plane ... was a copy of a Wright Model B aircraft produced seven years after the brothers' celebrated first powered flight.”
The National Air and Space Museum credits the Wright brothers with creating the basic design elements all successful airplanes still incorporate today.
So, what went wrong in Dayton, Ohio?
WDTN reports...
“The plane had logged approximately 25 hours of testing at the time of the crash. What caused it to go down is still under investigation. Officials say residents living nearby noticed the plane flying at a very low altitude and reportedly said the wings were ‘tipping.’ Soon after, it crashed in a pasture.”
And Dayton Daily News says -- this isn’t the first time a crash of this nature has happened.
“There have been at least four other crashes in the last decade of replicas or reproduction Wright brothers planes... In November 2003, a replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer crashed in North Carolina... A replica of the 1905 Wright Flyer III crashed Oct. 1, 2009...”
CinemaBlend says this accident further highlights how the Wright brothers truly reached new heights back in the early 1900s.
“If a replica plane updated with safety features can crash, it really puts the achievement of the Wright Brothers in a different light. History would have been forever altered if the pair had suffered the same fate as these two far more experienced pilots.”
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