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Subject: Watch a First-Time Hang Glider Hang On for Dear Life After Realizing He's Not Strapped In
Date: 26 Nov 2018 19:09:00 -0800
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https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-first-time-hang-glider-hang-on-for-dear-life-af-1830662015
gliding, this video will have you keeping your feet firmly planted on terra
firma. On his first day of a holiday in Switzerland, YouTuber Gursk3 decided to
He was supposed to be safely tethered to the hang glider and just along for a
leisurely ride while a skilled pilot steered the craft down a steep mountain.
connected to the glider at all, resulting in Gursk3 having to spend two minutes
and 14 seconds desperately clinging to the craft while the pilot attempted to
find a safe place to quickly land.
Complicating things further was the pilot trying to hold onto his passenger with
one hand, while attempting to maneuver the hang glider with the other, resulting
in an erratic descent that lasted a lot longer than both of them probably would
have liked.
Farther down the mountain, the pilot does manage to eventually bring the hang
glider in for a landing, but after his passenger was low enough to the ground to
safely let go and fall. He lived to tell the tale (and share the heart-racing
footage on YouTube) but ended up with a fragmented distal radius fracture on his
wrist, which required surgery and a titanium plate to fix, and a torn left bicep
https://youtu.be/dLBJA8SlH2w
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