HEROIC AIRMAN
SAVES PASSENGER'S LIFE IN BURNING PLANE PARIS, Thursday. Adjutant de Frayshinet, a 28-year-old pilot, has been awarded the Legion of Honour under exceptional circumstances. De Frayshinet, accompanied by a passenger was f lying over Valence, when his machine burst into flames. The pilot signalled to the passenger to jump and prepared to follow, when he noticed that the passenger's parachute was entangled in the fuselage. Despite the flames, de Frayshinet climbed back and levelled the aeroplane and enabled it to maintain suffieient height for the passenger to decend uninjured. Meanwhile de Frayshinet, fearingthat an ordinary landing would cause a rush of air and envelope him in flames, deliberately crashed into a tree. The passenger rushed to his rescue and they "fell into eacK others arms. The pilot partly owes his life to a non-inflammable suit.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 111, 2 January 1932, Page 5
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