PILOT FALLS OUT OF AEROPLANE
PASSENGER'S MIRACULOUS LANDING (Received May 3, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, May 3. An amazing mishap occurred at Romford, where a 23-year-bld aviator and chemist, Douglas Gee, warned a passenger in his aeroplane, Claude Oscroft, that he was going into a spin, and failed to flatten -out. The machine continued upside down, and Gee was hurled to death on a railway line. Oscroft, suspended in the air. from his strap, managed to get his legs around the control stick and, with the machine miraculously righted, Oscroft made a safe landing.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22083, 4 May 1937, Page 9
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