Two Slightly Hurt When Plane Stalls
Afton, Chenango Co., NY, 1926
Aviator Richard "Dick" Bennett's new five-passenger Hess Bluebird is wreckage now. The plane, purchased by the Binghamton flier in Detroit recently came to the end of a short career in Afton yesterday afternoon. Two passengers were slightly injured, the aviator escaping unhurt as the plane hit first a fence then shattered itself against a building. Aviator Bennett was attempting a takeoff from the oval within the race track at the time, his engine going dead just as the plane was about to leave the ground.
Paul Michals and Marie Gunther of Bainbridge, the passengers, were attended by a physician following the accident. The girl suffered slight lacerations to the forehead and a minor leg injury. Michaels received only a slight leg injury. "I still think I would like a ride and will go up with you some other time," Aviator Bennett declared Miss Gunter told him, follow the mishap. "There are but few girls, who would be willing to take a second chance at flying after figuring in one crash." the aviator declared in commenting on her gameness.
The plane, which was reduced to wreckage, has been admired by many residents of the city since its arrival in Binghamton. It was a five-passenger machine and presented a picture as it soared over the city.
The Binghamton aviator has encountered considerable difficulty since opening his air field in Binghamton. Shortly after he had organized his flying machines at Conklin Field, a heavy windstorm shattered two parked machines. Early this year Bennett was slightly injured in a fall, in which another machine was wrecked and the Hess Bluebird was purchased to take its place. No explanation of what caused the ship's engine to stall at Afton was given.
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