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TRAGEDY AVERTED By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, June 24. A misadventure that might well have had fatal results, added to the thrills to the parachute descent by Mr Sellars at the Canterbury Aero Club's field day. Sellars had stepped out on to the wing, ready to make the jump, when to his horror, he saw that the pilot chute which draws out the main parachute, was Issuing from the pack and streaming behind in a slip stream. Realising the danger of the parachute becoming tangled in the tail of the aeroplane, Sellars quickly jumped, and was fortunate enough to fall clear, and descend safely.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20763, 25 June 1937, Page 6
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