PARACHUTIST MAKES A WET LANDING
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A parachutist yesterday dropped 5000 feet for the amusement of the crowd at the Mangere aerodrome and landed in the Manukau Harbour.
He is Mr G. W. Sellars, who found that the wind at a high altitude was much stronger and varying in direction from that on ground level. He spilled air from his parachute in an attempt to make a dry landing, but this was unsuccessful and he opened his second parachute. This did not seem to function properly and the next the crowd saw of him was a splash.
Mr Sellars was found standing up to his armpits in .the creek. In rerelating his experience, he said he was dragged under water by the unopened parachute, but he unfastened the harness and regained his feet. He was lucky he did not land in the deepest part of the creek or in the mangroves.
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Northern Advocate, 13 July 1936, Page 6
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