AMAZING ESCAPE.
AIR PASSENGER LANDS SAFELY, r LEFT HANGING FROM ’PLANE UPSIDE DOWN. PILOT FALLS TO DEATH. (Received Monday, 11.40 p.m.) LONDON, May 3. In an amazing mishap at Romford, a twenty-three-year-old aviator, a chemist named Douglas Gee, warned his passenger, Claude Oscroft, that he was going into a spin, failed to flatten out and' continued upside down. Gee was hurled to death on a railway line. Oscroft, suspended in the air by a seat strap, managed to get his legs around the control stick. The machine miraculously righted and Oscroft made a safe landing.
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Wairarapa Age, 4 May 1937, Page 5
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