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KILL DEVIL HILLS, (North Carolina), Dec. 17. One hundred years after the Wright brothers' first flight, an attempt to re-create the moment failed Wednesday when a replica craft could not get off the ground and sputtered into the mud, media reports said. Piloted by Kevin Kochersberger, the craft dropped off the end of a wooden track and stopped dead in a puddle. Later, the plane was hoisted back onto the track. The attempt had already been delayed by about three hours after a heavy downpour. Organisers took the plane back inside a tent pavilion for an inspection, the reports said. The re-enactment was originally scheduled for 10.35 a.m. (1535 GMT), exactly 100 years after the brothers from Dayton, Ohio, made their first tentative hops through the air with a delicate contraption fashioned in their bicycle shop. The United States President, George W. Bush, was on hand earlier and remarked on the inclement conditions for the re-enactment. "On the day they did fly, just like today, the conditions were not ideal," Mr. Bush told a crowd of about 30,000 at the Wright Brothers National Memorial.
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