PARACHUTIST HAS NARROW ESCAPE
I A North Island parachutist, Mr Alvis Blanchard, who holds the Australian and New Zealand records of 14.000 ft for a delayed parachute jump, narrowly escaped I serious injury when he fell across a wire clothes line while descendI ing in a delayed jump from 4000 ft during a paracb Me display [ at the Ashburton airport yesterday.
| Mr Blanchard leaped from the aircraft at 4000 ft just east of the I airfield and after ‘ free” dropping I IP 3 seconds to 2000 ft. opened ♦u S P arac h u t e and drifted with . the fresh easterly wind across 1 the airfield. While trying to avoid power lines near the control tower, he narrowly missed a wooden post to which was attacahci a wire clothes line outside an aerial topdressing operator’s residence at the aerodrome. His back struck the line about 2ft from the I Post. I
Mr Blanchard was at ? to walk after the mishap but was admitted to the Ashburton Hospital lor observation.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28425, 4 November 1957, Page 3
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