From: anmccaff@alumdotwpi.edu   
      
   On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:00:46 +0200, Thomas Prufer   
    wrote:   
      
   >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?   
      
   Ed is laying low, what with the ricin scare.   
      
   >Thomas "a decade?" Prufer   
      
   Anthony "ER could beat that" McCafferty   
      
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