Elsa Andersson, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Sweden's first female aviator and stunt parachutist
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About Elsa Andersson
- Elsa Teresia Andersson (27 April 1897 in Strövelstorp, Sweden – 22 January 1922) was Sweden's first female aviator and stunt parachutist. She was the daughter of a poor farmer in Strövelstorp in the Scanian countryside.
- Her mother died when she was aged six.
- Her elder brother left the family and sought a new life in America. Always showing determination and ambition, she wanted to become more than just a farmer's wife and so, aged 21, in 1920, she learned to fly, becoming Sweden's first woman pilot.
- Her diploma was "no.
- 203".
- Not content with that, she went to Germany to learn parachute jumping. In 1922, Andersson was killed on her third jump in Askersund, Sweden.
- Thousands of spectators were gathering below on the ice of the frozen lake Alsen.
- She had trouble releasing her parachute, which finally unfolded only at a small distance from the treetops and she crashed violently into the ground. In 1926, the Swedish Aero Club erected a three-metre-high obelisk as a memorial in the place where she was found dead.
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