Lieutenant Frederick Smith, who had charge of the aviation field in Falmouth last summer, and Russell H. Leonard, a Fall River mill owner and summer resident- of Falmouth, narrowly escaped death when their airplane motor stopped and the plane fell one thousand feet, lodging in a tree. They were flying from Fall River to Taunton last Monday when the accident occurred. Their friends in Falmouth will be glad to learn that they escaped injury.
Falmouth Enterprise, Falmouth, MA, October 16, 1920