FLIER LEAPS FOR LIFE
PLANE’S ENGINE FAILS 2,€00 FEET IN PARACHUTE By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright , LONDON, Sunday. While Sergeant-Pilot ‘Trout was flying in a Siskin fighting plane at Brentwood on Saturday evening he was forced to choose between death or a leap in the darkness when the engine failed. He said: “I seemed enveloped in a black pall over a bottomless pit. I turned on the lights so that people seeing the machine falling could get out of the way. “I harnessed on a parachute and jumped. The machine went hurtling downward and crashed to earth below me. I floated down 2,000 ft. and landed in a field. A signalman found me rather dazed. He stopped a train and sent me on it to Brentwood. The airplane was a total wreck.”—United Service.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 325, 10 April 1928, Page 1
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