LOST IN SOUPY FOG
AIRMAN JUMPS TO SAFETY
10,000-FOOT PARACHUTE DROP
INSTRUMENTS ON MACHINE FREEZE.
(United Press Association —By Electric iciegrujji. Copyright.) Received 10.80 a.m., to-day. SAN DIEGO, Nov. 28. Geralid Nettleton, aged 20, while trying to establish a new trails -cent me n c 1 1 record- for juniors, ran into a fog rnil was hopelessly lost. He- stepped -clt Iris monoplane at 10,000 feet altitude and floated gently to earth in a parachute. The Triune crashed a mile irum where -he safely-landed. Nettleton said that the weather was so soupy with rain and fog that he could not see further than ten feet. The instruments had frozen and there was nothing left -but to jump. “I levelled the machine and cut oft the switches, Closed the throttle and rolled out of the doors. I fell for several minutes, and did not see the earth until 200 feet away. That is how bad the weather was,” he added.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 November 1930, Page 5
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