US Marines Parachute incidents China 1927 to 1928

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Tientsin .—An airplane collapsed and fell during an exhibition of stunt flying, and Capt. Moore, the aviator, escaped by jumping with his parachute. at the review given by the U. S. Marines at the Race Course, before representatives of the American, British, French and Chinese forces in Tientsin and a large number of civilians and service men.
The right wings of the Plane fell off during the course of a varies of somersaults. The machine had previously given a nose dive and rose at terrific speed, and the air resistance was apparently too strong, thus whipping off the wings. The plane rose into the air for a few seconds and dropped straight to the earth. The accident happened at less than eight hundred feet front the ground.