COLLISION IN MID-AIR

Evening Star, Issue 22084, 18 July 1935, Page 9

COLLISION IN MID-AIR

PARACHUTISTS' REMARKABLE ADVENTURE Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright . LONDON. July 17. T}ie ‘Daily Telegraph’s’ Moscow ’ correspondent says: “Ah army airman, Krasikoff, owes his life to a i " chance in a million. His parachute 1 ripped when he was jumping off, and he was speeding like a bullet to the earth when he collided with another Siarachutistj Noskoff, who seized him y the waist. The added weight of the pair dangerously accelerated the descent, but Krasikoff managed, 300 ft from the earth-, —to —open Noskoff’s ,»econd f parachute, and landed safely, although bruised^”