PILOT’S ESCAPE
PARACHUTE USED AT LOW LEVEL SUCCESSFUL DESCENT MADE BY TRAINEE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. With the engine failing at a comparatively low height, a pupil pilot under training, Leading Aircraftman A. F. Adeans, of Waipawa, made a successful parachute descent near a South Island station on Wednesday night. Shortly after taking off on night flying practice, Leading Aircraftman Adeane found his engine running erratically. With his height at 1000 feet, he had little time in which to act and his efforts to rectifying the engine trouble were unsuccessful. As the aircraft' was losing height and there was little chance of making a safe forced landing in the darkness, he decided to bale out. By this time he was down to a level giving him practically no margin for the operation of a parachute in the normal way. Releasing his safety belt, he rolled the aircraft on its back which threw him clear. He pulled his release cord at almost the same instant and the parachute snapped open in time to break his fall. Leading Aircraftman Adeane landed safely and within ten minutes reported back to the airfield. The aircraft landed in an open paddock and was completely wrecked.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1943, Page 4
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