FELL FROM AEROPLANE.
SOLDIER STOOD ON TRAPDOOR
'United Press Association —By Electric 'telegraph
Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) PARIS, Aug. 9. An aeroplane accident resembling Loewenstein’s occurred at Nancy today. A voting soldier, desiring to have his first air trip arranged lor a flight aboard a bombing aenop ;ane with two other passengers. . .. At a height of 2500 loot, the roldiei oft his place and stood on a trapdoor ■Oydino- through the fuselage. The door opened" under his weight and lie was precipitated through space. Onlooi .-M's thought o parachute experiment with a dummy was being tried and ran to the spot, where they found tlv man dead.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 11 August 1928, Page 5
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