First WNY Airline Disaster Recalled

It was Dec. 31, 1951. The disheveled stranger approaching the Bryants’ door that afternoon was leaving an accident behind, all right.

George Albert, a 30-year-old Miami, Fla., restaurant owner, had just slogged two miles through deep snow from the scene of Western New York’s first commercial air crash, on a densely forested ridge north of the Allegany River between Salamanca and Little Valley in Cattaraugus County.

For the full story, go to the Buffalo News.

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