AIRMAN KILLED NEAR BLENHEIM
ATTEMPT TO JUMP FROM PLANE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 29. An airman pilot under training was killed instantly near Blenheim this afternoon when he attempted to leave the trainex- aircraft of which he was the sole occupant by parachute. He was Leading Aircraftman Morris Desmond Jurgens, son of Mx- H. W. P. Jurgens, Marton. Leading Aircraftman Jurgens took off on a flight from the Air Force station at Woodbourne to carry out training exercises. In the course of the flight he apparently attempted to leave the aircraft by parachute. The evidence indicates that the parachute fouled the aircraft as the body was found with the parachute badly torn. The accident occurred near the Omaka river, where the body was recovered in the riverbed approximately one mile south-west of Goultar’s Hill and six miles west of Woodbourne. The aircraft was completely wrecked, but did not catch fire. The cause of the airman’s leaving the aircraft is not known. A court of inquiry will be held.
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Southland Times, Issue 24500, 30 July 1941, Page 4
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