MISTAKEN PILOT.
LEAP FROM AEROPLANE.
(British Official Wireless.) - Received May .7, 10.57 a.m. RUGBY, May 6
The story was told in London today by the commander of an R.A.F. squadron in France of the experience of one of his pilots who, after bringing down a Nazi fighter in a combat, found his own engine in flames when 25.000 ft above the ground. The young pilot decided to “bail out ” and left the machine but, having had to disconnect the oxygen tube, lie lost consciousness immediately afterwards. When he regained, his senses he was falling through a cloud. “I thought I was in heaven, he said, “but when I reached the other side of the cloud I decided I wasn’t, so I pulled the ripcord of the parachute to prevent me from going elsewhwf#.’
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 7
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