PARACHUTIST’S FATAL ERROR
BODY BELT WAS INSECURE. By Telegraph—Press , Assn.—-Copyright, - ; ’ ■ Paris, May 5. The parachutist, Langer, making his 78th descent from an aeroplane’at Geldem, failed securely to fasten’ the body belt.. He be.came , detached ,f join.,the parachute -ty. pud-air, ;;^nd? .fe.ll. Jikc ' a stone ito the earth to a horrible death in the Bight of thousands of spectators.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1930, Page 15
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