Parachutist Breaks Leg In Jump
TIMARU, Dec. 4. Iveitli Brown, leading parachutist in New Zealand, broke a leg when he landed heavily in a ditc-h after niaking a .jump from 20o0 feet at the South Can- • terbury Aero Club's pageant held at Geraldine this afternoon. Brown, who used a 32ft paracliute, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, said after his deseent that the speed -in eoming down had been most deeeiving for the size of the parachute.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 December 1949, Page 7
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