CRASHED TO DEATH
PARACHUTISTS FATE
YOUNG WIFE PRESENT
LONDON, May 31.
In the presence of 5000 spectators, including his young wife, a parachutist, Ivor Price, aged 27, attached to Sir Alan Cobham's air display, crashed to his death at Woodford aerodrome.
It was arranged that Price and Miss Naomi Heron Maxwell, a young society girl, should jump simultaneously from separate aeroplanes. Price and Miss Maxwell climbed to the wings and jumped. Horrified crowds saw Price vainly tugging the release cord.
Miss Maxwell landed safely. She had seen the tragedy on the way down, and ran to the body as soon as she landed.
An announcer called to the crowd by megaphone to stand still. Not a single person moved until the body had been removed.
Price helped Miss Maxwell to make her first public descent in April.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 9
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