On Saturday, 7 June 2003 17:02:38 UTC+1, J Asking  wrote:   
   > Many years ago I heard a gruesome radio news report about a   
   > parachutist who descended to her death into rotating helicopter   
   > blades...can anyone confirm if this really happened?   
      
   yes it really happened on August 9th 1987 at Thruxton Aerodrome in Hampshire,   
   UK. The 21 year old girl who was tragically killed by the helicopter was in a   
   family group from (if my memory serves me correctly) Maidenhead in Berkshire,   
   UK.   
   The family spent the previous night in a bed and breakfast house less than one   
   mile from Thruxton itself. How do i know this? Because i stayed in the same   
   bed and breakfast establishment on the same night, and i was talking to the   
   very girl that very    
   morning at the breakfast table. She was telling me it was her first jump and   
   she was nervous but excited etc. etc.   
      
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