PARACHUTET KILLED
THOUSANDS WATCH DISASTER LONDON, July 27. Five thousand people watching a parachute demonstration at Littleport saw the Birmingham parachutist R. Hopkins jump from a wing 500 ft up. The parachute became entangled in tho elevator and Hopkins hung suspended from the aeroplane’s tail. While the pilot vainly tried to regain control, the machine nosedived 100 ft from the ground and crashed; Hopkins was killed and the pilot is in a critical condition.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 177, 29 July 1932, Page 7
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74PARACHUTET KILLED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 177, 29 July 1932, Page 7
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