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   Thomas Prufer to markfromsoton@yahoo.co.uk   
   Re: Did a parachutist really descend int   
   28 Jun 13 07:00:46   
   
   From: prufer.public@mnet-online.de.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:51:45 -0700 (PDT), markfromsoton@yahoo.co.uk wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   Ed? Ed? Is that really you?   
      
      
   Thomas "a decade?" Prufer   
      
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