LEAP FROM AEROPLANE
LIFE SAVED BY PARACHUTE. Flying Officer Charles M. Chambers, stationed at Hornchurch, Essex, aerodrome. escaped death recently by jumping from his aeroplane at a height of 4000 feet when the controls of the machine jammed. , , x He was piloting a single-seater unitdog fighter over Romford when he wag seen to jump with his parachute, Ine aeroplane nose-dived into a field at Onigwell Row, on the outskirts of the town, narrowly missing a farmhouse. . The pilot was carried by a strong wind for more than two miles, landing in a ditch. ~ . . , Mr Arthur Sammons said he was looking at the aeroplane over Hog Hill, when lie saw a man jump. “He seemed to drop some little distance before the parachute opened,” he said, “ and he then came sailing toward me at a great pace. He passed just over my house, and came down in the ditch. “As he landed he shouted a cheery remark to me, and said everything was all right. He then took a cigarette from his case and smoked it.” After his descent the pilot went to see his machine, which was wrecked in the crash.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21365, 19 June 1931, Page 3
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