PLANE BREAKS IN AIR
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE PILOT SAVED BY PARACHUTE Times Cable LONDON, Friday. Flight-Lieutenant Pope, a Royal Air Force pilot, willy-nilly owes his life to a parachute, which is now portion of a pilot’s standard equipment. The airman was testing a new secret and extremely fast fighting machine at the Yate airdrome when he felt a sudden tail-flutter at a height of 1,500 feet. The tail of the plane then broke adrift and the machine became uncontrollable and turned upside down. The pilot released his safety bolt and fell out at a height of 1,000 feet. He had never before made a parachute jump, but he had pulled the release ring in his fall. ITe landed safely, but the plane crashed upside down.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 602, 2 March 1929, Page 9
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124PLANE BREAKS IN AIR Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 602, 2 March 1929, Page 9
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