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ERIE — A rebuilt vintage airplane lost power near the Erie Airpark on Tuesday morning and crashed, injuring a man and his grandson.
“The engine failed,” said Paul Hinton, 68, owner of the de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk, a single-engine, two-seat aircraft manufactured in 1952.
Hinton, who spoke from the emergency room of Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in Lafayette, was piloting the craft and suffered minor injuries in the crash. Hinton’s 16-year-old grandson, Robin Hinton, had serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The Denver Post
