SAVED BY MIRACLE.
AIRMAN’S PARACHUTE DIVE. LONDON, July 17. Tlie Daily Telegraph’s Moscow correspondent says an army airman named Krasikoff owes his life to one chance in a million. _ His parachute was ripped off when jumping anil he was speeding like a bullet to the earth, when he collided with another parachutist named Noskoff. who seized him by the waist. The added weight of the pair dangerously accelerated the descent, but Krasikoff managed, 300 feet from the earth, to open Noskoff’s second parachute and landed safely though bruised.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 196, 18 July 1935, Page 7
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