The hang glider impacted the landing strip, destroying it and killing the pilot. At the time of the upset, the hang glider was at an altitude of between 10 to 20 meters, leaving it with no altitude to recover.
Shortly after take-off, the hang glider was caught by a gust, which flipped it. On June 2, 2018, about 1338 mountain daylight time, an experimental, amateur-built North Wing Pulse 10M hang glider, N62073, collided with the ground while p. "He is a lovely man, and we are glad to hear it may not be as serious as we first feared," Mr Smith said. Narrative: The hang glider was being launched using a winch. He remained in Dunedin Hospital last night in a stable condition in the neurosurgery ward. An accident investigation found that the main wing spar completely fractured in two locations: one on the left. As the crowd gasped, (what was left of) his hang glider appeared to spin toward earth. The pilot sustained serious injuries but survived. Suddenly, as his new Vimeo video shows, his hang glider snapped in two. The crash happened at around 1,700ft of the 2,500ft Monument Peak, a popular spot for hang-gliding and. A rigid-wing hang glider was being piloted near Point of the Mountain, Utah when it suffered a catastrophic in-flight failure and crashed. The man died at the scene, Santa Clara Sheriff's Office spokesman Russell Davis confirmed. Mr Williams, who Mr Smith said was an experienced hang-glider pilot with more than two decades' flying experience, was assisted by a doctor who lived nearby, and the Waitati Volunteer Fire Brigade. Delamination of outer face sheet of box spar. Mr Smith contacted emergency services, and the Otago Regional Rescue Helicopter, which was at Dunedin Hospital at the time of the incident, was dispatched to the scene. I knew he had landed quite heavily, but I didn't expect him to be that bad."
Mr Smith rolled him on to his side and "he started breathing after about five seconds with all this blood and mucus in his mouth". The pilot was knocked unconscious in the heavy landing, he said. The pilot, Guy Williams, of Dunedin, was believed to have hit an air pocket before plunging headfirst from a height of about 4m, he said. Photo by Craig Baxter.A veteran hang-glider pilot was knocked unconscious after landing heavily at Doctors Point, near Dunedin, yesterday afternoon.Įmergency services were called to the Waitati reserve shortly after 3pm, after reports the pilot had crashed.Įyewitness John Smith, who was supporting the group of hang-gliders, said the pilot appeared to fly "deeper over the dunes than he should have" on his landing approach.
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