FATAL PARACHUTE JUMP
MAN FOULS ’PLANE CONTROLS PILOT UNABLE TO RECOVER CRASH FROM HUNDRED FEET. FIVE THOUSAND SEE TRAGEDY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 10.50 a.m. to-day. LONDON, July 27. Five thousand people watching a parachute demonstration at Littleport isanv a Birmingham' parachutist, R. Hopkins, jump from a wing 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 nosedived 100 feet from the ground and crashed. Hopkins wa9 killed and the pilot is-in a critical condition. . '
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 28 July 1932, Page 5
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