A bit late to answer your question but the answer is YES.   
   Thruxton aerodrome in october 1987 if i recall. I lived in West Sussex at the   
   time, and was on my way back from visting a friend in hospital in Oxford and,   
   as i am a plane spotter, planned to visit a fly in at nearby Popham airfield   
   the next day and    
   ended up staying at a B&B nearly opposite Thruxton aerodrome. In the morning   
   at the breakfast table i was talking to a family from Maidenhead in Berkshire.   
   They were doing a parachute jump that morning for charity. The lady (21 yo if   
   i recall) who was    
   tragically killed by the blades of the hovering helicopter was the very lady i   
   was talking to that very morning. She was telling me she was nervous but   
   excited. When i got home that evening i read the news on the TV.   
   Witnesses said they could hear the lady’s screams above the sound of the   
   hovering helicopter   
      
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