CAUGHT IN VIOLENT WIND
AVIATRIX SAVED BY PARACHUTE
MARSEILLES, December 19.
The French airwoman Maryse Hilsz was seriously injured when she jumped in a parachute from an aeroplane in which she hoped to break the speed and altitude records. The machine was wrecked.
Mademoiselle Hilsz ascended in the hope of beating the women's speed record of 276 miles an hour. She says she reached 2000 feet and began her attempt on the record. She was travelling at 280 miles an hour when tho aeroplane was caught in. a mistral—a violent northerly wind—and nosedived.
"I don't know whether I jumped out or was thrown out, but the parachute opened immediately," she said. "I descended in a lagoon and the parachute dragged me across the lagoon at a speed of seven miles an hour, until I was rescued by fishermen."
Mademoiselle Hilsx broke two ribs.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 12
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