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Old 19th November 2002 | 16:55
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Flt. Sgt Nicholas Alkemade fell 19,000ft out of a burning Lancaster and landed in a snowdrift in a pine forest. He woke up three hours later, dusted himself off and walked away with no injury apart from cuts from the pine branches which had broken his fall. The Germans were so amazed that when they found his parachute in the wreck they gave him a certificate to verify the occurrence.

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