SAVED BY PARACHUTE
LEAP IN THE DARKNESS FLOATED DOWN 2000 FT. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) LONDON, April 8. Sergeant-Pilot Trout was forced to choose between death or a leap in the darkness when the engine of his Risk in fighter failed at Brentwood on Saturday night. lie said: "I seemed enveloped in a black pall over a bottomless pit. I turned on the lights so the people, seeing the machine falling, could get out of tho way. "I harnessed on a parachute and jumped. The machine went hurtling downwards, and crashed to earth below me. I floated down 2000 ft. and landed in a field. A signalman found me rather dazed. He stopped a train and sent me on it to Brentwood. The aeroplane was a total wreck."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16620, 10 April 1928, Page 7
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