PARACHUTIST’S MISADVENTURE
AT AERO CLUB’S FIELD DAY UNENVIABLE EXPERIENCE ON WING OF ’PLANE [By Telegraph —Press Association] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A misadventure that might well have had a fatal result added thrills to a parachute jump made by Mr Sellars at the Canterbury Aero Club’s field day held at Wigram. Sellars had stepped out onto the wing ready to make the jump when to his horror he saw that the pilot ’chute which draws out the main parachute was issuing from the pack and streaming behind in the slip stream. Realising the danger of the parachute becoming tangled in the tail of the aeroplane, Sellars quickly jump ed, and was fortunate enough to fall clear and descend safely.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 24 June 1937, Page 7
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118PARACHUTIST’S MISADVENTURE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 24 June 1937, Page 7
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