PARACHUTIST KILLED
FAILED TO JUMP CLEAR.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, July 27.
Five thousand people who were watching a parachute demonstration at Littleport saw a Birmingham parachutist, R. Hopkins, jump from a wing at a height of 500 feet. The parachute became entangled in the elevator and Hopkins hung suspended from the aeroplane’s tail. While the pilot vainly tried to regain control the machine nose-dived 100 feet from the ground and crashed. Hopkins was killed, and the pilot is in a critical condition.
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Southland Times, Issue 21772, 29 July 1932, Page 5
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