Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-04-17 | Page 1 | Byrd, 3 Others Injured in Crash

r r i aHde Byrd 3 3 Others Injured in in Crash I POLE FLIER HURT I TESTING STING If SHIP f FOR R Hl TO PARIS Bennett Fokker F and Mechanic Mechanic Me Me- Also Injured as Plane Wrecks i DAMAGE DAMAGE b IS IS' SLIGHT SLIGHT f Tail of Craft Rises Rise as ai Landing L an do Ing Is I s Made Mad M a d. d e 1 J J HACKENSACK N. N J. J April jV iff AP The AP-The The monoplane America ii in V Which Lieutenant Commander Richard Richard Rich Rich- ard E. E Byrd planned a dash to to l L Paris in competition for the prize turned over this afternoon at i Hasbrouck Heights after an hours hour's test flight and injured Anthony Fokker Floyd Bennett Lieutenant Commander Byrd and George Noville No- No yule ville a mechanic of New York Of the four Bennett was the id most st seriously injured red He Xe suffered suffered suf- suf 7 a fractured thigh a fractured fractured- t 7 u rib and a fractured left ah shoulder ulder Lieutenant Commander Byrd suffered suf- suf 4 Zereda ereda a fractured left wrist and the theother theother other two escaped with slight in in juries Benne Bennett t and Commander Byrd were brought to the Hasbrouck Has Has- brouck hospital Mr irr Fokker the airplane inventor was not brought V to the hospital DESCRIBES CRASH Lie Lieutenant tenant Commander Commander Byrd in describing the accident said it PC- PC c a- a after atter the plane had landed I and was traveling along a runway The tail tall of the craft persisted in rising he said and after about lOG yards it turned the ship over Bennett Ben Ben- nett crushed crushed against the en engine engine enn en- en gine gine- n The plane Plane was not greatly dam aged and can be repaired sp speedily edily i it was said It is a horsepower fr ft three motors sit t was said at the hospital that Commander Byrd would i j je r rySe e unable to use his wrist for six Weeks and 1 that Bennetts Bennett's Injuries him up indefinitely i re received elved serious Internal I I 4 Injuries and was unconscious for several hours Bennett suffered a broken arm mm leg eg and collar bone Both Were ere taken directly to t. th the Hackensack hospital for medical attention later NEW YORK YORI April 16 AP AP- AP Lieutenant Commander Richard E. E Byrd injured In an airplane crash at Hasbrouck Heights N. N J. J to tonight tonight tonight to- to night led the tio first airplane flight ov over r the north pole in 1926 accompanied accompanied accompanied by Floyd Bennett also Injured in injured injured In- In as pilot in a plane designed by Anthony H. H G. G Fokker pilot of or the plane which crashed tonight PL PLANNED NNED PARIS FLIGHT Byrd and Bennett were planning middle midale ot C to take off orr about the May in an attempt to to- tomake make a nonstop nonstop nonstop non non- stop flight to Paris in The Amer Amer- merca mer ca a plane pane especially designed for forthe the flight The project was backed backe by Rodman Wanamaker et Byrd i is the brother of Governor Harry F. F Byrd F Byrd of Virginia Bennett v Continued from page 8 POLE FLIER HURT TESTING SHIP l-IP FOR FLIGHT TO PARIS Continued fr from m page page L 1 10 Is is-an is an officer in the n naval val ali al service is a native ot of Holland who tame Came ame to AmerIca to design airplanes In In 1923