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'Terrified' pilot describes desperate battle to stop Cambridge student jumping from plane

A pilot has revealed his terror as he desperately tried to stop a Cambridge University student from jumping out of his plane.

Mahefa Tahina Rantoanina, 33, and British passenger Ruth Johnson, 51, desperately clung onto Alana Cutland for five minutes before she escaped their grip and fell 3,500ft to her death into the Madagascar savannah below.

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