A MIRACLE MOMENT
; ; An unnamed pilot of.the Air Force had an experience in his 'plane which was like that of a man who passes through death to life again. The 'plane was at a great height, over five miles, when in the rarefied air he lost consciousness. As he was losing his senses his hands gripping the controls jerked them so that the machine, instead of moving gradually onward and downward, was plunged into a steep dive.
Down it rushed, faster and faster it came nearer to earth, and had anyone been able to estimate the situation it would have seemed certain that the pilot was doomed. But his unconsciousness was happily only a question of seconds. As he fell a full allowance of oxygen rushed into his lungs and be came to himself again; then by instinct he jerked the controls back again and pulled the machine out of the dive. His instruments told him when at last he reached the aerodrome that in those few seconds. of ' unconsciousness he had fallen three miles—and he is alive to tell the tale. ' .
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1929, Page 15
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182A MIRACLE MOMENT Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1929, Page 15
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