Did the Wright Flyer crash?

[A Squared]

Saw this on the FAA accident investigation website. SOunds like one of hte Wright flyer replicas may have crashed. Anyone know anything about it?



IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 1911K Make/Model: EXP Description: WRIGHT MODEL B

Date: 05/20/2003 Time: 2320 Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Minor Mid Air: N Missing: N Damage: Substantial

LOCATION
City: WARRENTON State: VA Country: US

DESCRIPTION: ACFT CRASHED INTO TREES UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES, WARRENTON, VA

INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
# Crew: 1 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 1 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:

WEATHER: METAR KIAD 192351Z 13003KT 10SM BKN250 18/10 A3031

OTHER DATA
Activity: Pleasure Phase: Unknown Operation: General Aviation

Departed: WARRENTON, VA Dep Date: Dep. Time: Destination: WARRENTON, VA Flt Plan: UNK Wx Briefing: U Last Radio Cont: UNK Last Clearance: UNK

FAA FSDO: WASHINGTON IAD, DC (EA27) Entry date: 05/20/2003

 

[Flywrite]

The Flyer B isnt the familiar "Wright Flyer" from 1903 Kitty Hawk. It was the first mass produced Wright Bros airplane, built from 1910-1914ish. It was the first Wright airplane without a canard, instead it had a rear mounted elevator, but still had the twin rudder arrangement.

Sure looks like a replica of one crashed though.

 

[Timebuilder]

CENTENNIAL UPDATE: WRIGHT MODEL "B" CRASHES...
The Wright Experience's reproduction of a Wright Model "B" crashed into a treetop Monday evening near Warrenton, Va., with airplane builder Ken Hyde at the controls. (This is not the reproduction of the 1903 Flyer that is scheduled to fly at Kitty Hawk in December.) Hyde was treated for injuries including a broken arm and released from the hospital. "I was dodging trees and power lines trying to get back to the airport," Hyde told the local newspaper, the Fauquier Times-Democrat. The aircraft had taken off inadvertently during a taxi test. The reproduction flies with an original Wright engine, and is being used for a NOVA documentary, "Inventing the Flying Machine," that will air later this year on public television.


http://www.avweb.com/newswire/9_21b/complete/185037-1.html#2