FLYER’S AMAZING ESCAPE
CAUGHT IN MID-AIR COMPANION SAVES LIFE LONDON, July 17. Tho Daily Telegraph’s Moscow correspondent says that an army, airman, Krasikofl’, owes his life to a chance in a million! His parachute ripped off whilst ho was jumping and he was speeding bullet-like to earth when he collided with another parachutist, Noskoff, who seized him by the waist. The added weight of the pair dangerously accelerated the descent. Krasikoff managed 000 feet from the earth to open Noskoff’s second parachute and landed safely but bruised.
PLANE DOWN IN FLAMES DUTCH MAILS DESTROYED BUSHIRE, July 17. A Dutch mail plane crashed when taking off for Bagdad and was completely burnt. The mails Were destroyed. The seven passengers and crew of four escaped with only slight injuries.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18761, 18 July 1935, Page 5
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