PARACHUTIST KILLED
BEFORE 5000 PEOPLE. THRILLING EXPERIENCE. (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 10.45 a.m.) London, July 27. Five thousand people watching a parachute demonstration at Littleport saw a Birmingham parachutist. R. Hopkins, jump from the wing of a plane 500 feet up. The parachute became entangled in the elevator, and Hopkins hung suspended from the areoplane's tail while the pilot vainly tried to regain control. The machine nose-dived 100 feet from the ground and crashed. Hopkins was killed and the pilot is in a critical condition.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3399, 28 July 1932, Page 5
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