AIRMAN’S ESCAPE
DUE TO WIFE’S FORESIGHT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September 24, 1.30 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 23. Mr T. Campbell Black, who left his ’plane by parachute when over the Sudan, would be dead but for his wife’s intervention before the flight. Mrs Black (formerly 'Miss Florence Desmond) said: Tom never used a parachute, but just before his departure I persuaded him to sacrifice his overcoat, for a parachute.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 255, 25 September 1935, Page 2
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