The glider was incorrectly rigged leaving the pilot with no control of the glider :-( This shouldn't normally happen; if the pilot had performed proper pre-flight checks this would have been avoided. Hang gliding isn't very forgiving of mistakes!
I was in the same situation. It was 1980 in Tzaneen, South Africa. We were a group of ~5, (Hennie Prinsloo, Bokkie Luger, Colin,Drew and I, Ters) flying off Wolkberg/ Cloud mountains. I left last after a thunder storm passed. The guy in front was a heavy chap Drew? also a champion water polo athlete. He left about half an hour earlier. (He was forbidden to join us because of his team's upcoming championships). Any way I jumped off (3000ft above the floor ) and followed an eagle in a fantastic thermal. Just as I though I am going to have the flight of my life, I saw Drew approaching end finals over the magnificent Transvaal bush veld, heading for the plowed field. Unbelievable, his left wingtip hit the very last tree, and the glider spinned 180 deg. There was no one near and the cars were very far from getting gown there. I had to go down, fast! They say height is money in the bank and that aft'noon I was rich. Unfortunately I had to spend that money very fast. I flew to right above him, still perhaps 4000 ft up and just could not get down. I did wing over after wing over, stalls upon stalls. Aerobatics galore. Fantastic feeling however it felt that whatever I do, I just could not get that glider down. Eventually I landed at about the same time first car arrived. Drew's arm were broken in two places. We braced it with a T-shirt and rushed him to the Pietersburg hospital, some 80/ 90 kilometers away. No Heli- casivacs for us. This is Africa! Man those were the days.
Well done on spotting a fellow pilot having difficulty, from watching this video it looks like you either saved a life or prevented him further injury and suffering before more help arrived, there's one or two negative comments here aimed at the lack of action in the video...fools who don't fly. I bet your heart was pounding, plenty of action in this video if you know how unforgiving the sky is.
@@freedmtYou don't have to be a medic to do something as simple as keeping a patient still if a spinal injury is suspected and carefully removing the glider in case the wind decides to pick up. Nor does it take any specialist equipment, just some basic knowledge of what to do in these kinds of situations, which having read the report I know this pilot did.
Sir, many thanks for your attentiveness and concern for others; a true credit to the sport. Thanks also for the link and clarification. Fly safe - fight gravity!
I have thought rigid wing gliders suck ever since flying my Delta Wing 6D with Icarus 1’s at Sylmar 30 years ago and seeing my buddy John Morrison in a body cast after his accident. So glad this pilot is ok!
what are these idiots saying that they don't see anything? WTH are they doing instead watching the vid? Glad the pilot recovered. Good on ya to come on down to help him out.
Well, It is the internet unfortunately! If this video prevents just one accident due to a mis-rigged glider, then posting the video has served its purpose. The video doesn't generate cash, it's simply there for educational purposes (not entertainment). Thank you for your comments!
WOOWWW...AMAZING FROM YOU....YOU ARE A DUDE TO FLY WITH....CHEERS ...HAPPY FOR THE PILOT FOR THE FULL REVOVERY AFTER THE ACCIDENTE :) AND NICE TO SEE PILOT LIKE YOU !!!!
Just noticed the pilot that flew to the field only had one hang-loop. Need a back-up...always have 2 loops man. Just sayin. I am also an HG pilot - flying since 1989 - had a few "Rut-Roh" moments, 1 - ALWAYS do a thorough uninterrupted Pre-Flight, 2, Do a proper hang-check. Stay safe up there!
There's actually two hang loops there. Airborne gliders stitch a backup loop to the main hang loop. On this glider the main attaches to the king post and the back up over the keel. There is however one carabiner!
Ronaldo Santos The pilot made an error when rigging the glider (rigid wing controlled with ailerons) and took off with some of the flight controls disconnected. This made it impossible to control the glider and the pilot endured the glide until ground impact.
As a fellow hg pilot, I'm thinking that you're in a lone mass of rising air and that the lower 'rigid' glider is showing you the absence of any lift at launch and I'm thinking at any moment you're about to hit that sinking air. Ah, it was the other guy's faulty set-up that kept him down there.
Gliding takes a certain character - you have no power and are at the mercy of the winds and your own wits. Glider pilots have a true understanding of trading energy for altitude. People wondering why he didn't just drop out of the air have to realize that the higher you are the more your potential energy is. That potential energy will be traded into kinetic energy when changing altitudes (or you can change kinetic to potential by gaining altitude). You can't just trade a bunch of altitude and hope to land - your speed upon landing will be so great that you will end up injured, or dead, next to the guy you are trying to save. It's all about physics.
Um, I don't really know what you mean dude.......if a hang glider was to have enough structure around the pilot to protect him, the extra weight and drag would stop it being able to fly / soar. Even motorised trikes don't really protect the pilot due to weight restrictions. Sail planes add a little protection, but they fly so much faster that it would help only a little bit. (And need to be towed up by a plane due to their size & weight)
Love this best video I've ever seen on RUclips and I have the most respect for you and I don't know who then 873 that I've put thumbs down at the top of this post
Good on you for getting there as fast as you could. I really don't understand why this video has almost as many thumbs down as it has ups. Anyone might think you'd said the earth was a globe and upset the loony flat earthers or something similar.
What is this secretive cause guys? Did he forget something by setting the glider up??? Let us know what did he do wrong so that we don't do the same thing in the future either. This is how you learn! I don't understand what is to hide about. If you wanna really hide something, you shouldn't post this video at first place!
well I tell you guys I hope if my glider hit the lz and no movement, I'd sure appreciate a fellow pilot throwing away a nice flight to land and help. you're a standup man in my eyes. I must say im not a fan of ridgeds. I saw one crash also, they seem squerrely and hard to fly. is he extra glide ratio really worth it?
Wow, that's some great skills ! I've always thought how hard it should be to fly with HG, but here's another perspective, how are you gonna get down fast & safe with all the speed & height ? It was interesting to see your technique ! Glad that nobody got hurt.
Could get down even much faster than that with spirals and wingovers, but this looked like rough air and he went for the safest way! Also seeing someone crash isn’t the best motivator for aerobatics.
Aren't you supposed to leave your glider with the nose pointing down towards the ground to prevent it from flying off? (remembering from some hang gliding guidebook I read in the library back at uni 28 years ago!!!)
That's one way, the other option is to turn the glider the other way around with the nose up pointing 45 degrees from down wind. That keeps the sail out of the dirt!
Cool. Thanks for confirming! My memory is still working fine then! :oP I'm hoping I'll have more time next year to finally try out hang gliding and get my license to fly... I've always wanted to do this!
He set it down correctly in the vid. You set them with keel (tail) to the wind. The old dorito-shaped delta gliders from the 70-80s got set nose-down though typically.
A glider can land by simply flying away from areas of lift. In this video, flying away from the hill sufficed. A hang glider can get down faster by flying fast and increasing drag. I did all of this in the video but it still took a while to get down!
Most of us carry mobile phones. Can't use them from the air but when I got to the scene and made the initial assessment we were able to alert emergency services and pin point exactly where we were with GPS. Got to love this technology!
Good friend going down a fast that you can for help yo the crashed pilot! Very good job! And me Happy for the injured pilot going better! Fly safe and help your flying Friends!
Does anyone else notice the total lack of explanation of the type of accident, and the cause of it? How you write "A very lucky man", and not tell the viewers ANYTHING about what kind of wounds he suffered, and how it hapened??? Did he forget the hang-loop? Did he forget the leg-straps? Did he suffer a heart attack? Did he suddenly think about his deceased mother, and crashed? Tell us!
When the video was published the accident was being investigated. Some of the earlier comments answered your questions but I'll happily answer again. The pilot did not rig the glider correctly or do a thorough preflight check. The result of which meant he took off without any flight control. After a short flight he impacted the ground at around 30 mph head first I don't know the full extent of his injuries but I'm sure you can imagine what my concerns were being first on the scene. He doesn't have any memory of the accident and the 3 days that followed! It could have been so very much worse hence one lucky man!
Thanks man! You should probably update your description of the video, because comments get pushed way down with time, and become too much to read. Now that the cause and recovery are known and free, it would save many viewers a bit of frustration :) Fly safe and often, as I do!
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This pilot is seriously a good potential candidate for the FAI / CIVL Pepe Lopez Medal (Award Recipient.) - If nothing else, just the nomination would honour him. www.fai.org/civl-awards/civl-individual-disciplines ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34455 Who is the pilot, so we can initiate application proceedings? Application should proceed quickly in order to get it onto the CIVL Plenary Agenda in time. See: www.fai.org/civl-about-us/civl-meetings
Did you find the cause?? I once insisted on a crashed glider beinng checked before anyone moved it, thank god we did as we found the cause. Stopped it hapening again too. glad this guy was okay as was the chap I was above apart from broken legs and cuts and brueses. I will add he latter flew with two plaster cast on, we had to more or less throw him on take off and catch him on landing, stupid I know but he did enjoy that flight. he still flys to this day..Cheers pete
I take my hat to you hang glider guys flying in all sorts of turbulence/weather hanging under a parachute..I"ll stick my little DR400..good for you to go to help..
and I want to do this why?? Oh that's right, I don't. This confirms it. I thought the pilot was going to be ok despite how bad it looked. Sad. Eric Hill of the bachelorette just died on Sunday due to a hang gliding accident. Sad.
Shit! Kudos on you, pilot. This is a great demonstration of airmanship. Would love to have details of the accident (flap problem on the rigid?). But I suppose the pilot wasn’t in the best mood for tales. Glad to hear he’ll recover!
Details of the cause of the accident was published in the BHPAs SkyWings magazine: morphfx.co.uk/mobile/hang-gliding/diary.php?date=29Sep2013#mediaId=220
So why didn't you face the A frame of your kite in the direction of the downed pilot so we could all see just what it was you were doing before the car arrived?
Wasn't really thinking about framing of the video at the time; that was the fastest way to secure my glider and get to the casualty. Positioning the glider in that direction prevents the wind from getting under the wing and flipping it over.
I was paying attention you condescending PUKE, did you see a crash or a crashed kite? I used to fly these things - its a disappointing video... And you're an accusatory piece of work. At least my disdain was for a video, you attacked me personally for an opinion... At least I can fly one of them fuckers without crashing.
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Respect my friend, you did absolutely the right thing !
I love you all
Hats off to you sir. You did what any man should have done in this situation. Fly safe.
Just to update everyone, despite some totally inaccurate reports in the comments, the pilot has recovered and has recently taken to the air again!
That's good news !! ;) Fly safe !!
What happened though? Why did he crash?
The glider was incorrectly rigged leaving the pilot with no control of the glider :-( This shouldn't normally happen; if the pilot had performed proper pre-flight checks this would have been avoided. Hang gliding isn't very forgiving of mistakes!
+Dan Hamblin That suit looks like a strange torture device.
Dan Hamblin Q-A
As a fellow paraglider i take my hat off to you. Happy to know he will make a full recovery.
I was in the same situation. It was 1980 in Tzaneen, South Africa. We were a group of ~5, (Hennie Prinsloo, Bokkie Luger, Colin,Drew and I, Ters) flying off Wolkberg/ Cloud mountains. I left last after a thunder storm passed. The guy in front was a heavy chap Drew? also a champion water polo athlete. He left about half an hour earlier. (He was forbidden to join us because of his team's upcoming championships). Any way I jumped off (3000ft above the floor ) and followed an eagle in a fantastic thermal. Just as I though I am going to have the flight of my life, I saw Drew approaching end finals over the magnificent Transvaal bush veld, heading for the plowed field. Unbelievable, his left wingtip hit the very last tree, and the glider spinned 180 deg. There was no one near and the cars were very far from getting gown there. I had to go down, fast! They say height is money in the bank and that aft'noon I was rich. Unfortunately I had to spend that money very fast. I flew to right above him, still perhaps 4000 ft up and just could not get down. I did wing over after wing over, stalls upon stalls. Aerobatics galore. Fantastic feeling however it felt that whatever I do, I just could not get that glider down. Eventually I landed at about the same time first car arrived. Drew's arm were broken in two places. We braced it with a T-shirt and rushed him to the Pietersburg hospital, some 80/ 90 kilometers away. No Heli- casivacs for us. This is Africa!
Man those were the days.
Fair play to you man. It is very encouraging to know there are people like you out there have the compassion & use it with a level head.
Well done on spotting a fellow pilot having difficulty, from watching this video it looks like you either saved a life or prevented him further injury and suffering before more help arrived, there's one or two negative comments here aimed at the lack of action in the video...fools who don't fly. I bet your heart was pounding, plenty of action in this video if you know how unforgiving the sky is.
I agree with your comment that the uploader deserves our warm congratulations and is a fine fellow pilot.
Eric Bowie Good to see there are nice people. 😀
how he can prevent injury? is he a medic with all the equiplent onboard?
@@freedmtYou don't have to be a medic to do something as simple as keeping a patient still if a spinal injury is suspected and carefully removing the glider in case the wind decides to pick up. Nor does it take any specialist equipment, just some basic knowledge of what to do in these kinds of situations, which having read the report I know this pilot did.
Sir, many thanks for your attentiveness and concern for others; a true credit to the sport. Thanks also for the link and clarification. Fly safe - fight gravity!
It's good to see pilot standing up for each other in good and bad, nice work gentlemen.
Thank you for sharing this and getting the pilot's consent! It's amazing! I hope he was okay! Good on you for getting over there quickly!
The glider was inspected and the cause is known. Best advice, rig your glider carefully and make sure you do a thorough pre flight check!
Well played man, well played..
I never saw the other hang glider
Look at the white point (like a kite) in the bottom left corner-
Bottom RIGHT corner!
Oliviero Dal Toso you are responding to a fucking 3 year old statement
badflam3101 silencer So?
thats bottom left dumbass
I have thought rigid wing gliders suck ever since flying my Delta Wing 6D with Icarus 1’s at Sylmar 30 years ago and seeing my buddy John Morrison in a body cast after his accident. So glad this pilot is ok!
Rigid gliders are not for me, but performance and handling are at another level compared to flex wings. Just make sure you rig them correctly!
Bravo Dan. Your landing was faster and perfect also.
Great job. You did everything you could! Outstanding citizen you are.
what are these idiots saying that they don't see anything? WTH are they doing instead watching the vid? Glad the pilot recovered. Good on ya to come on down to help him out.
Well, It is the internet unfortunately! If this video prevents just one accident due to a mis-rigged glider, then posting the video has served its purpose. The video doesn't generate cash, it's simply there for educational purposes (not entertainment). Thank you for your comments!
video games have proven that if you roll upon landing, you'll take no fall damage .
GTA V much
Ironically, the other common fall damage negator is, in fact, hang gliders. xD
What was happend with rigid wing glider? What was wrong, so it maked glader crashed?
Glad to know pilot is ok.
Well done Mate, Glad the said pilot is ok. Fly Safe!
Thanks for helping him, God bless you...
WOOWWW...AMAZING FROM YOU....YOU ARE A DUDE TO FLY WITH....CHEERS ...HAPPY FOR THE PILOT FOR THE FULL REVOVERY AFTER THE ACCIDENTE :) AND NICE TO SEE PILOT LIKE YOU !!!!
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I think your caps lock is damaged... :)
Just noticed the pilot that flew to the field only had one hang-loop. Need a back-up...always have 2 loops man. Just sayin. I am also an HG pilot - flying since 1989 - had a few "Rut-Roh" moments, 1 - ALWAYS do a thorough uninterrupted Pre-Flight, 2, Do a proper hang-check. Stay safe up there!
There's actually two hang loops there. Airborne gliders stitch a backup loop to the main hang loop. On this glider the main attaches to the king post and the back up over the keel. There is however one carabiner!
Ronaldo Santos The pilot made an error when rigging the glider (rigid wing controlled with ailerons) and took off with some of the flight controls disconnected. This made it impossible to control the glider and the pilot endured the glide until ground impact.
If it is a 4500 N steel, you only need one
@@jimbob8264 it is, and gets changed every couple of years!
Stan Miles bv
This video shows pretty much nothing.
As a fellow hg pilot, I'm thinking that you're in a lone mass of rising air and that the lower 'rigid' glider is showing you the absence of any lift at launch and I'm thinking at any moment you're about to hit that sinking air. Ah, it was the other guy's faulty set-up that kept him down there.
Gliding takes a certain character - you have no power and are at the mercy of the winds and your own wits. Glider pilots have a true understanding of trading energy for altitude. People wondering why he didn't just drop out of the air have to realize that the higher you are the more your potential energy is. That potential energy will be traded into kinetic energy when changing altitudes (or you can change kinetic to potential by gaining altitude). You can't just trade a bunch of altitude and hope to land - your speed upon landing will be so great that you will end up injured, or dead, next to the guy you are trying to save. It's all about physics.
Good work Dan.
It will be good if there can be a protective enclosed compartment of some sort to be added to this kind of glider.
Jie Song it gets way too heavy to fly.
Are you implying something? I need to know where I can go now to see some lady friends.
Please tell me how I may help, what I may do. I am talking to those who are helping me.
Um, I don't really know what you mean dude.......if a hang glider was to have enough structure around the pilot to protect him, the extra weight and drag would stop it being able to fly / soar.
Even motorised trikes don't really protect the pilot due to weight restrictions.
Sail planes add a little protection, but they fly so much faster that it would help only a little bit. (And need to be towed up by a plane due to their size & weight)
Love this best video I've ever seen on RUclips and I have the most respect for you and I don't know who then 873 that I've put thumbs down at the top of this post
Great idea, will definitely make one for my glider. Thanks for sharing and for the idea mate !
If you fart in one of those hang wings can you still smell it?
Downwind you would I reckon
Well, thats 4 minutes and 49 seconds I'll never get back.
Sure you will. If you eat a few more salads and fast once in a while. LOL
Good on you for getting there as fast as you could. I really don't understand why this video has almost as many thumbs down as it has ups. Anyone might think you'd said the earth was a globe and upset the loony flat earthers or something similar.
that time you needed three hands, 2 to glide the glider and one to reach into your pocket for a cell phone to call 911...
I wonder how the proliferation of wind turbines on ridges is affecting the safety of this sport, not to mention all the tarnished scenery.
Thanks for this 🤞🙏
What is this secretive cause guys? Did he forget something by setting the glider up??? Let us know what did he do wrong so that we don't do the same thing in the future either. This is how you learn! I don't understand what is to hide about. If you wanna really hide something, you shouldn't post this video at first place!
well I tell you guys I hope if my glider hit the lz and no movement, I'd sure appreciate a fellow pilot throwing away a nice flight to land and help.
you're a standup man in my eyes.
I must say im not a fan of ridgeds. I saw one crash also, they seem squerrely and hard to fly. is he extra glide ratio really worth it?
What a hero
So I take it that this glider can not be controlled by weight shift?
0 incident, total clickbait
fucking moron
Wow, that's some great skills ! I've always thought how hard it should be to fly with HG, but here's another perspective, how are you gonna get down fast & safe with all the speed & height ? It was interesting to see your technique ! Glad that nobody got hurt.
Could get down even much faster than that with spirals and wingovers, but this looked like rough air and he went for the safest way! Also seeing someone crash isn’t the best motivator for aerobatics.
Aren't you supposed to leave your glider with the nose pointing down towards the ground to prevent it from flying off? (remembering from some hang gliding guidebook I read in the library back at uni 28 years ago!!!)
That's one way, the other option is to turn the glider the other way around with the nose up pointing 45 degrees from down wind. That keeps the sail out of the dirt!
Cool. Thanks for confirming! My memory is still working fine then! :oP
I'm hoping I'll have more time next year to finally try out hang gliding and get my license to fly... I've always wanted to do this!
He set it down correctly in the vid. You set them with keel (tail) to the wind.
The old dorito-shaped delta gliders from the 70-80s got set nose-down though typically.
Can a glider land any time he/she wants? How does a glider "put on the breaks“?
A glider can land by simply flying away from areas of lift. In this video, flying away from the hill sufficed. A hang glider can get down faster by flying fast and increasing drag. I did all of this in the video but it still took a while to get down!
I've been thinking so many times, what if that bag support snaps and pilot just falls to ground.
I've got a parachute! Hope to never need it!
how come you don't have any rescue alert device ,with one hand click distance , that can send h SOS with GPS coordinate to someone?
Most of us carry mobile phones. Can't use them from the air but when I got to the scene and made the initial assessment we were able to alert emergency services and pin point exactly where we were with GPS. Got to love this technology!
jeeze, you should really point out the glider very hard to spot what is going on
location ?
+rob b East Sussex, England - just outside of the town of Lewes
So, seems like an old 90 yr old dude that died mid-air??? What happened? Nothing visible. No captions to explain it.
read the description, airhead.
Any reason the rigid didn't deploy their reserve?
Yea, not high. But still, deployment would have reduced his ground speed / impact.
If you have an uncontrollable glider it's time to toss.
A rigid wing? Never heard about, cool.
Lucky guy.
Like a short film.
what do u think happened?
In the city, each bulkhead and guards its own plot, and here farmers allow to trample their fields!?
Why your connection with glider looks rotated?
There's a slight twist in the hang loop where I have extended it. The crab often twists through 90 degrees because if it.
Wait I’m confused. What happened?
Wonder why you turned the camera away from the issue at hand ?
That's the safest way to quickly park the glider so it doesn't blow away by the wind. Down wash from the helicopter was another thing!
What was the cause?
Good friend going down a fast that you can for help yo the crashed pilot! Very good job! And me Happy for the injured pilot going better! Fly safe and help your flying Friends!
why you dont use a walkie-talkie ??
WHERE IS THE ACCIDENT ?
Like a flying witch in cloak and is unbeatable!
Does anyone else notice the total lack of explanation of the type of accident, and the cause of it?
How you write "A very lucky man", and not tell the viewers ANYTHING about what kind of wounds he suffered, and how it hapened??? Did he forget the hang-loop? Did he forget the leg-straps? Did he suffer a heart attack? Did he suddenly think about his deceased mother, and crashed? Tell us!
When the video was published the accident was being investigated. Some of the earlier comments answered your questions but I'll happily answer again. The pilot did not rig the glider correctly or do a thorough preflight check. The result of which meant he took off without any flight control. After a short flight he impacted the ground at around 30 mph head first I don't know the full extent of his injuries but I'm sure you can imagine what my concerns were being first on the scene. He doesn't have any memory of the accident and the 3 days that followed! It could have been so very much worse hence one lucky man!
Thanks man! You should probably update your description of the video, because comments get pushed way down with time, and become too much to read. Now that the cause and recovery are known and free, it would save many viewers a bit of frustration :) Fly safe and often, as I do!
Good feedback - I've updated the description and provided a link to the page on my website!
Were you on Kingston Ridge?
Yes, commonly referred to as Swanborough by the local pilots.
Near Lewes in Sussex? Maybe Bopeep Lane?
We call it Swanborough, just above the village of Kingston, but yes, very close to Lewes.
Love From India Mumbai City
Much More Respect you Sir added
HangGliding is not only An Hobby
But Can b Used in Every Emergency Call of Duty
Provided Law Of HangGliding With Appropriate Trainings Medical Emergency Need of Hours2 save lives
Single or Groups
After reaching the exact soot of needs
Call for help
Proved Humanity crisis can be a life saving
God Bless all
My opinion may be absolute Solutions
But A soul tions Awaiting to Explore
Cheap n Quick Relieve can be made
Thanks to this video uploader
Thanks to all comments Who may agree with me or not
Thanking all
Then What our skills for?
did he get ill during the flight or something?
There was a problem with the glider and the pilot had no control.
Dunno about hang gliders but as a general principle folk should never interupt folk rigging or checking for airworthyness.
This pilot is seriously a good potential candidate for the FAI / CIVL Pepe Lopez Medal (Award Recipient.)
- If nothing else, just the nomination would honour him.
www.fai.org/civl-awards/civl-individual-disciplines
ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34455
Who is the pilot, so we can initiate application proceedings?
Application should proceed quickly in order to get it onto the CIVL Plenary Agenda in time.
See: www.fai.org/civl-about-us/civl-meetings
Are you ok?
Yeah. Just taking a little dirt nap is all...
Did you find the cause?? I once insisted on a crashed glider beinng checked before anyone moved it, thank god we did as we found the cause. Stopped it hapening again too.
glad this guy was okay as was the chap I was above apart from broken legs and cuts and brueses. I will add he latter flew with two plaster cast on, we had to more or less throw him on take off and catch him on landing, stupid I know but he did enjoy that flight. he still flys to this day..Cheers pete
OUTSTANDING !!!
I take my hat to you hang glider guys flying in all sorts of turbulence/weather hanging under a parachute..I"ll stick my little DR400..good for you to go to help..
What's with the dislikes?
kudos , i,ve had to do that a couple of times flying ul trikes
good landing
and I want to do this why?? Oh that's right, I don't. This confirms it. I thought the pilot was going to be ok despite how bad it looked. Sad. Eric Hill of the bachelorette just died on Sunday due to a hang gliding accident. Sad.
Not after he gets the ambulance bill
If God wanted us to fly he wouldn't have given us scuba diving fins...
Never smoke weed before flying..... lesson learned
Shit! Kudos on you, pilot. This is a great demonstration of airmanship. Would love to have details of the accident (flap problem on the rigid?). But I suppose the pilot wasn’t in the best mood for tales. Glad to hear he’ll recover!
Details of the cause of the accident was published in the BHPAs SkyWings magazine: morphfx.co.uk/mobile/hang-gliding/diary.php?date=29Sep2013#mediaId=220
if I understand the other handglider crash on ground... The accident with handglider I know... Me too crash in three ... Very dangerous the landing...
geçmiş olsun çok üzüldüm :(
No body crashed tho? Nothing happened
So why didn't you face the A frame of your kite in the direction of the downed pilot so we could all see just what it was you were doing before the car arrived?
Wasn't really thinking about framing of the video at the time; that was the fastest way to secure my glider and get to the casualty. Positioning the glider in that direction prevents the wind from getting under the wing and flipping it over.
Did he shit on himself in mid flight???
Where is the accident ?
1:10
@@alansilva4274 nothing to watch
@@farfadet2222 no pouso abaixo
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Unbelievable danger and suspense! Haven't seen this much action since the A-team or the Dukes of Hazard.
A Video of a NON-Crashing Hang glider with a helicopter at the end - What a load of crap
Jason Sage Lol, someone else crashed. If you were paying attention you would’ve seen, but you were too busy complaining.
I was paying attention you condescending PUKE, did you see a crash or a crashed kite? I used to fly these things - its a disappointing video...
And you're an accusatory piece of work. At least my disdain was for a video, you attacked me personally for an opinion...
At least I can fly one of them fuckers without crashing.
3:47 Batman! Thank god you've arrived!
- a very lucky man until that medical bill arrives.
I just almost died let me do it again
good job
It's just a video of a dude flying and then landing. Nothing more.
Well, alteast your already partially in a body bag.
I don't know the specifics but it appears the pilot didn't attach the flight controls.
captions remind me radioactive man comic crust, hard
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3:52; Pilot runs away from hang glider. Was it in danger of exploding? ;~)
:-) No Hollywood special effects in this one!
Dan Hamblin Was it sheer fright from a nearly catastrophic flight that caused you to run?