svanarts

I’m really surprised the wing stayed inflated. Or that it re-inflated. This is one lucky man. Hope he recovers soon.

yokon965

Awesome story; and I’m not using ‘awesome’ as hyperbole. I would have loved to see some GoPro/etc footage of that epic flight.

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Jim_DeLaHunt

@yokon965, follow the link to the Cross Country Magazine article above. It has a nice animation of the pilot’s track log during the accident flight.

Jim_DeLaHunt

This is not even the most extreme flight of this sort. Read the Cross Country Magazine article linked to above. In particularly,

Most famously, German paraglider pilot Ewa Wisnierska, then 35, survived when she was carried “higher than Everest” to 9,144m while flying in Manilla, Australia in August 2007. China’s He Zhongpin, 42, died after being struck by lightning in the same storm.