Add dust devils to always-growing list of things that can kill a pilot, according to an accident investigation by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. The TSB issued a report last week that concluded the pilot of a powered paraglider was killed after flying through a dust devil while on his second attempt to land at an airfield in Alberta last May. The board could definitively reach that conclusion after watching the helmet cam video that recorded the whole horrifying chain of events near the tiny community of Gibbons, about 200 miles north of Edmonton last May 13. The pilot was flying an RS Ultra Kangook MF from a turf strip and rejected his initial landing. During the go-around, he flew through the dust devil.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/dust-devil-downs-powered-paraglider