He adds with humor: “I will go hang gliding again as I did not enjoy my first flight. “While the pilot made a critical error in our pre-flight set up by not attaching me to the glider, he did all he could to get me down to the ground as quickly as possible while grabbing onto my harness and flying with one hand,” Chris says in the video. He needed surgery for his wrist and had to nurse a torn tendon in his bicep, but he’s willing to give hang gliding another try. However, he says, he’s happy with that because the alternative would have been infinitely worse. He hit the ground at 45 mph and broke a wrist. In a YouTube video, the man said he plans to go hang-gliding again as he didn't get.
The pilot was also holding him with one hand, and steering the glider with the other.Ĭhris wasn’t able to hold on when they approached ground and he let go before the glider had landed. In a YouTube video, the man said he plans to go hang-gliding again as he didn't get to enjoy it the first time. All this time, Chris was holding on with his left hand on the landing gear and his right on the pilot. He was having trouble controlling it, which meant it took him over 2 minutes until he could land securely. The pilot too understood what was happening and strove to bring the glider back down. However, trouble became apparent when they got up in the air and Chris realized that the pilot had forgotten to secure him to the glider, which meant that his harness was solely for fashion purposes, as he hung in the air, holding on with just his hands. When Chris and the pilot were still on the ground, there was no sign of trouble. 14 seconds I had to hang on for my life! The landing was a rough one, but I lived to tell the story."Ĭhris says he plans on trying hang gliding again, since he didn't get to enjoy his first flight.To Chris’ credit, he’s very gracious about this oversight on the part of the pilot, as you can see in the video at the bottom of the page, which documents the entire hair-rising ride that lasted well over 2 minutes. I had a great Ridge Soaring Session with the Karisma and had no problem soaring with many much higher performance. "While the pilot made a critical error in our pre-flight setup by not attaching me to the Glider, he did all he could to get me down to the ground as quickly as possible, while grabbing on to my harness and flying with one hand." He also tore his left bicep tendon because of how long he held onto the hang gliding bar.Īs Chris wrote in the video, it beats the alternative.
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Gursky survived the landing, but did end up fracturing his right wrist, which required surgery to install a titanium plate and seven screws. Eventually, the pilot brings the hang glider low enough for Gursky to safely let go and fall to the ground. Making things even more difficult, is the pilot is trying to hold on to the passenger with one hand, while attempting to steer the hang glider with the other. The next few minutes are spent by the two men trying to get to terra firma as quickly as possible. In the video, Gursky and the pilot run to take off, and soar into the sky, but a 'fun' ride quickly turns desperate as the pair realizes the harness hadn't been tethered to the craft. "My first time hang gliding had an unexpected twist when I left the ground unattached from the glider," Gursky wrote. Instead, he found himself clinging for dear life to the aircraft for the longest 2 minutes 14 seconds of his life.Īccording to Gursky, the pilot was supposed to strap him into the hang glider, but shortly after take-off, the pair realized his harness hadn't been attached to anything at all. An American tourist who wanted to try hang gliding for the first time while on vacation in Switzerland posted some harrowing footage of his "near death experience" to YouTube after his pilot forgot to attach his harness to the aircraft.Ĭhris Gursky posted footage to his YouTube channel of his first-time hang gliding experience in Switzerland that was supposed to see him gliding gracefully through the clear blue Swiss skies.
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