PARACHUTIST KILLED

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 July 1932, Page 7

PARACHUTIST KILLED

CROWD WATCH TRAGEDY.

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(Recd. July 28, 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 27.

Five thousand people watching a parachute demonstration at Littleport, saw a Birmingham parachutist, R. Hopkins, jump from the wing, when 500 feet up.

The parachute became entangled in the elevator and Hopkins hung suspended from the aeroplane’s tail, while the pilot vainly tried to regain control.

The machine nose-dived when 100 feet from the ground, and crashed. Hopkins was killed, and the pilot is tn a critical condition.

ANOTHER HOMELAND TRAGEDY.

(Received July 28, 2 p.m.) LONDON, July 27.

Bruce, the twenty-one-year-old son of Mr Alfred Bossom, Conservative member for Maidstone, who recently decided he could not sacrifice his record-breaking for marriage to a Knightsbridge girl, tragically ended his career yesterday, when piloting an aeroplane, which crashed nepr Farnham.

He, and the passengers, one being Prince Otto Erbach Fuerstinau were all killed.

They were taking Prince Otto as their guest on a pleasure flight from Heston to Southampton and encountered bad weather. An eye-witness saw the plane emerge suddenly from the clouds, then there was a terrific explosion, and the machine badly twisted.

TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. MONTREAL, July 26. Count Von Gronau landed here today at 6.6 p.m. Von Gronau announced that he will fly to British Columbia, charting an air route, to speed up the mails for Australia and the Orient. RESCUED GERMAN. WYNDHAM, July 27. Adeph Klausmahn embarked on the motor ship “Koolinda,” en route for Fremantle, where he will join his I colleague, Bertram. Arrangements 1 are being made to bring then* sea- ■ plane to Perth. Klausmann has recovered. He regrets leaving the Wyndham Hospital.