4-Year-Old's Skull Fractured When Plane Hits Car, Dec. 13, 1920

Charlotte, Dec. 13—Rising from the ground but failing to attain the proper altitude, an airplane driving by Pilot Clark yesterday afternoon struck an automobile at a landing field in Myers park, injuring Mrs. Copsas and her 4-year-old daughter, Grace Jackson. The child’s skull was fractured and she was last night unconscious in a local hospital. The airplane is one that has been flying here with “dare devil” performers pulling hair-raising stunts on the wings. The car was parked on a road near the field and was some distance from the standing point of the plane. The top was hit by the wheels of the machine, it being crumpled up like a sheet of paper. The child was struck at the base of the skull by pieces of the top. The mother of the child is an American woman, widowed, who married a Greek here. (From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Dec. 13, 1920)