Flyer Drops 3,400 Feet
to Earth in Parachute
Dayton, O.— Lieut. John A. Mac
Ready. veteran army Hyer, added the
roost thrilling chapter last night to the
story of bis exploits in the air. He has
flown across tbs continent in a day. He
has ascended to a height of more than
34.000 feet and come down stiff as an
automaton from the intense cold.
Last night he crawled out on the
.viog of his airplane, the motor of
which had gone dead, jumped and
pulled the rip cord of his parachute,
asd started down through 3,400 feet of
absolute blackness.
He landed without a scratch. The
story of the flight, and the jump, as
told by MacReady today, sounded like
the most imaginative of fiction.
One of the strangest features came
after he landed. His plane had fallen
to the earth wiihacrash and was im
mediately enveloped in flames. Crowds
congregated around it and stood in
horrified anxiety. helpless to make a
move to extricate the aviator who,
they felt sure, was trapped is? the
flaming wreckage
MacReady suddenly walked .nto
their midst. He had landed a short
distance avvav, and had seen the plane
crash as-he glided through the air.
MacReady was returning from a
Bight airways flight from Columbus,
when the motor of his plane, a De Hav
iland, stopped. After he determined
his ship wa9 ‘’dead’' he said his first
thought was to land, if possible, where
ao lives would be endangered. So he
headed for the outskirts of Dayton,
finding nis position by means of the
City lights.
Shortly toe plane reached strange
territory, with absolute darkness be
low.
“Then I prepared to jump,” he said.
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■‘My altimeter -,h w«d ihat I was be
tween 3,000 and 3,400 feet from the
ground. I loosened ouv safety belt and
threw one leg over the side of the ship,
keeping one hand on the control suek.
',u,inallv 1 crawled out on the wing of
the plane, and attempted to nose the
ship up so I could leave without any
danger of having the parachute catch.
I had to work fast.
■‘I let go of the plane and let the
wind blow me free. I decided to count
two before I pulled the ripcord of the
parachute, so as not to ft>j| me plana.
‘"1 don’t know in what position 1 was
in when I left the ship, whether ' was
upside down or not. But I heard the
parachute open with a snap and 1 knew
I would land safely soEie place ”
Edward A. Wutchet. of the Dayton
chamber of commerce, walking down
below in the summer darkness, was
srartled u> hear a voice from the sky
say, ‘‘Hello, below! He.v, down mere!”
Mac-Ready had decided to call out as
he fell, to preclude, if possible, injury
| in landing.
”1 kept on carrying on a eonversa
lion with those below until I fe’t a
slight bump The.y told me Inter I had
landed oh the edge of a 109-loot cliff,
lot a scratch, nor even a good bump.”
Air officials here believe MacReady
is the first person to ever make a night
jiaracbute leap.
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