<p>The aircraft crashed shortly before 11 am on Saturday, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. It had taken off from Springfield Beckley Municipal Airport.<br /><br />Police identified the dead men as Don Gum, 73, and Mitchell Cary, 65, both from Ohio.<br />The plane in Saturday's fatal crash, known as "Silver Bird," was a flyable look-alike of Wilbur and Orville Wright's first production aircraft, the Wright Model B Flyer.</p>.<p>It was designed and built by volunteers from Wright "B" Flyer Inc., a nonprofit organisation based at Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport in Miami.<br /><br />Both pilots had extensive experience flying the biplane, built by a company that uses the planes to promote public awareness of Dayton as the birthplace of aviation.<br /><br />There have been at least four other crashes in the last decade of replicas or reproduction Wright brothers planes, including one in the Dayton area that left a man seriously injured, <br />Dayton Daily News reported.</p>.<p>The cause of the crash remained under investigation, according to the highway patrol. It's looking into the incident along with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National <br />Transportation Safety Board.</p>.<p>The plane began test flights in June and performed well, according to a press release on the organisation's website.</p>.<p>Gum and Cary were members of the group's board of trustees and Cary was a former president. </p>
<p>The aircraft crashed shortly before 11 am on Saturday, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. It had taken off from Springfield Beckley Municipal Airport.<br /><br />Police identified the dead men as Don Gum, 73, and Mitchell Cary, 65, both from Ohio.<br />The plane in Saturday's fatal crash, known as "Silver Bird," was a flyable look-alike of Wilbur and Orville Wright's first production aircraft, the Wright Model B Flyer.</p>.<p>It was designed and built by volunteers from Wright "B" Flyer Inc., a nonprofit organisation based at Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport in Miami.<br /><br />Both pilots had extensive experience flying the biplane, built by a company that uses the planes to promote public awareness of Dayton as the birthplace of aviation.<br /><br />There have been at least four other crashes in the last decade of replicas or reproduction Wright brothers planes, including one in the Dayton area that left a man seriously injured, <br />Dayton Daily News reported.</p>.<p>The cause of the crash remained under investigation, according to the highway patrol. It's looking into the incident along with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National <br />Transportation Safety Board.</p>.<p>The plane began test flights in June and performed well, according to a press release on the organisation's website.</p>.<p>Gum and Cary were members of the group's board of trustees and Cary was a former president. </p>