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FATAL PARACHUTE JUMP. (United Press Association—By Electric. Telegraph—Copyright.) ; ' } (Received this day at 9.2 n a.m) LONDON, July 27. Five thousand persons, watching a parachute demonstration at Littleport. saw the Birmingham parachutist, R. Hopkins, jump from the wing of a plane five hundred feet. up. The parachute became entangled in the elevator and 'Hopkins hung suspended from the aeroplane’s tail while the pilot vainly tried to regain control. The machine nosedived one hundred feet from the ground ahd‘ crashed. Hopkins was killed, ‘while the pilot is in a critical condition.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1932, Page 5
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