The Associated Press reports Switzerland's civil aviation authority plans to question the hang-glider pilot after the incident.Īs of Tuesday, the video had more than 1.4 million views on YouTube. Without any jerky movement – which would have endend fatally – he steered the glider as smooth and fast as possible towards the landing.īecause it is a serious incident, we will continue the investigation." Current hang glider design falls into two primary genres: Flexible and rigid wings. This paper discusses these differences, including sail flexibility, structural design philosophy, and wing twist. Luckily, the pilots reaction after the takeoff was very good. Hang glider structural and aerodynamic design features differ significantly from those of traditional aircraft design. It’s really tragic, that in this case it obviously wasn’t done properly. By the way, a glider itself is not really the biggest expense of hang gliding. Basic HG instruction usually costs 10002000 and is worth every penny. The preflight check is an elementary and important routine of every flight, and is part of every training. Some more advanced gliders can easily kill a newbie on their first flight because you really need to have proper knowledge and reflexes to fly those. On the said video a mistake is clearly visible. Every year there is tousands of commercial tandem flights in Interlaken, without the slightest incident. "In principle hanggliding isn’t a dangerous sport. We take first timers on a discovery flight. The Swiss Hang Gliding Association released the following statement after the video went viral: The most exhilarating adventure sport you can do near Houston, Texas. When asked if he would hang-glide again, he said he would. The Technora ODL04 used for the lower surface is lighter than that. In an interview with ABC News, when asked about the pilot, Gursky said "He made a bad mistake, could’ve been fatal, but watching the video, he did everything he could to get me down safely." We adopted this arrangement in order to make the glider easier to fly in whatever situation. Gursky walked away with a broken right wrist and a torn bicep tendon and was treated at a local hospital. Remarkably, he managed to hold on as the glider approached a field and he let go moments before the pilot touched down. Gursky gripped tightly to the crossbar with his left hand and held onto the pilot's left leg with his right hand. The pilot was steering with one hand, trying to get them down safely on nearby land but the glider continued to fly higher over a wooded area. Gursky grabbed for anything he could hang onto as the glider started to take off. He had no idea it would be the longest four minutes of his life when he realized he wasn't attached to the hang-glider as he and the pilot took off. Chris Gursky, of North Port, was on vacation in Switzerland when he decided he wanted to go hang-gliding.
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