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AIRMAN AFTER DEATH. LONDON, May 2. The Daily Mail’s Paris correspondent says that the dead body of a i French airman floated gently to eaitn Ibv parachute after the aeroplane in which he was flying over Cliateauroux at a height of 3500 feet was cut in two iin a collision with another machine. ! 1-Ie was killed as the machines met. His companion leaped out unhurt, hut was killed when he crashed into the ground cuing to his paracute not opening. The occupant or the other machine, who was flying solo, was thrown out of the cockpit and parachuted safely to the ground.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 131, 3 May 1935, Page 7
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