4000 FEET DROP.
30,000 PEOPLE WITNESS AVIATOR S DEATH. PARACHUTE FAILS TO OREN. (United Service.) Received March 15, 1.15 a.m. LONDON, March 14. In the presence of thirty thousand people at Turin, a Dutch aviatoi named Harns Larsen was dashed tc pieces through falling from an aeroplane at a height of four thousand feet. Larsen was trying a new parachute which failed to open. The crowd made an agonised demonstration, but was held back by the mounted Royal Guards.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19220315.2.61
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18431, 15 March 1922, Page 5
Word Count
794000 FEET DROP. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18431, 15 March 1922, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.