Show AIRSHIP ACCIDENT ACCIDENTS S WAS VMS ONLY TRIVIAL S Wright Brothers Declare New NewS S I Machine Will Stand Standi i vs J All An Tests Mantee N. N c. c Ct May 17 The Wright brothers are aro not disheartened over tho the accident to their aeroplane S yesterday As previously stated In these dispatches they havo have been using their old machines here and to today a It was wag learned that the they have e a 3 new ann anil stronger machine already y built In Dayton Day and will wiil return hero with that next August to go o on with their experiments S It Il was also learned from rom official I sources that the tho flight Interrupted bythe bythe by bythe the accident was designed to bo be the theS S most Important performance ever at attempted at- at tempted by an aeroplane It was to tobe tobe be bean an endurance test In which theS tho the S operator had expected to remain in ther air one hour and twenty minutes and would have e meant a flight of ot S about eighty miles In tho the government test next August the tho Wright machine will havo have to re remain remain re- re main In tho the air one hour but will no not noh be required to cover as great a r distance as was contemplated In yes yes- cs S tenJay's days day's performance v A Mile a Minute ro By By actual e measurement to today a It was determined that the machine mado made a little more than eight miles before It 4 or S came down but the tho most surprising surprising'S S 'S feature of oC the flight is the fact that i according to three persons who timed r tho flight tho the eight mites were covered covI cov coy tf ered erd r d In a a. little less than eight min mm- Yo ute utes f I t VII Wilbur bur Wright sal said to today ay that theAs the tho As acct accident ent was caused by y his mistake mitake r p In pulling the tho wrong steering lever A Tho The machine was was' as only fifteen feet t from th the ground and turning to lo look lookS k at a sandhill which ho S was approachIng approach'S approach- approach S 'S t. t Ing ho felt one ne of r the tho planes touch Ji the sand and in a hurried hurrle grasp at tho levers evers caught tho the wrong one and l. l t sent tho the machine turning the tho on sand The Tho levers ers are very t.- t. S close together an and 1 as they thoy are a Q new newS S feature of ot the machine the tue accident is easily explained The Wrights rights appear appear appear ap- ap 1 pear to regard It as a very trivial matter matterand mat mat- ter and a thing by which they will profit In tho the end |