SAVED BY PARACHUTES
THREE Alfl FORCE OFFICERS
COLLISION WHILE LOOPING
(British Official Wireless.) , (Received May 7, 11 a.m.)'
RUGBY, May 5. Two pilot officers and one aircraftsman attached to the third flying training school of the Royal Air Force were saved by their parachutes yesterday when during looping operations, near Grantham, two aeroplanes collided. The aeroplanes crashed, both engines being buried in the ground. Sinee1 in 1926 parachutes were made compulsory in the service, 109 lives,have been saved by them up to the beginning of the present year. . /■■
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 9
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88SAVED BY PARACHUTES Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 9
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