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Skydiver's 1500ft fall dismissed as practical joke
Air traffic controllers thought the pilot who asked permission "to come overhead at 1500ft and throw one of our passengers out" was joking. They watched amused as "a bundle" fell out and dissapeared near hangars at Coventry Airport. Only when they saw fire and rescue crews rushing across the airfield did they realise it wasn't a joke. The "bundle" dropped from the aircraft was Dave Clements, a member of the crew who had attempted a parachute jump, but struck the aircraft before clearing it, breaking his arm. He was unable to open his parachute.
I bet I'm the only bloke who's chased a rabbit on a motorbike round and round a field and caught the rabbit.
The newly appointed managing director of Packenham Human Resources plc., 38 year old Denise Boulter, attended Bristol Grammar School and then went on to St. Hughes College, Oxford. She had originally planned on a Civil Service career, but then decided that she wanted to work with people.
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