’CHUTE FAILS
Girl Lands In Trees (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Oct. 15. Two of three parachutists went astray during a jump from a helicopter flying at 3500 ft above the Tamaki College football field on Saturday. A fair was being held at the college.
One of the parachutists, a 24-year-old nurse, Miss J. Kenah, came down in a grove of poplar trees and dangled six feet above the ground about 10 minutes before being helped to safety. Her parachute had tangled, forcing her to open an auxiliary parachute. She could not steer with the second parachute and was blown about 300 yards from the football field where she should have landed.
Mr R. S. Coyne drifted across rooftops and landed about 100 yards from the field, after just missing a web of power lines. A car had to stop when his parachute billowed across the road. The only one of the three to land on target, Mr W. F. Ashworth, tried to wave away scores of children on bicycles and foot who were chasing him as he came in to land. The children scattered seconds before he hit the grass.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31501, 16 October 1967, Page 24
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