Rookie Tandem Hang Glider Crash

[jwm239]

...looked like a weak takeoff run...gotta launch like you really mean it...! Also that

air sounded gnarly.

[jumpingboyfilms]

He's done it agian but worse, this man should be banned from tandems. He side slipped off the end of take off and crashed into a gravel road, leaving passenger and pilot in mild shock.

[lltowing2007]

wing not level , nose to high, weak launch ,not enough air speed, glider stalled.

[ancientcloudhopper]

Looks like the passenger stopped running. You can clearly see left wing drop down when he lifts his running gear up.

Got to have a lot of spare carrying capacity doing tandems running off a hill!! Or an automatic cattle prod.

[JF5885477]

Instructor is too fat, hang glider can't lift a 500 lbs walrus off the Earth sheesh.

[mansel54]

I would never pay for tandem flight with this instructor. What a joke! Great job bro

[STIIKYS]

This passenger paid to eat dirt .

Poor fella

[mjok2004]

He paid for a rush and he got one

[acrazedmaniac]

up here in the great north west, USA, its (I call it ), "HEIL USHGA" . The ones 'in control', and really push their 'control' seem to be the ones who are screwing up, but its ok..cause they got insurance and are certifried...i got storys...that take off was lame...or weak...

[nzflyb0y]

I wonder how this video would have gone down at the Queenstown Rooke 2006 tandem seminar on safe flying...

[manwhore100]

Maybe Kevin Rooke should take a hang gliding course to learn to take-off before taking payed passengers. He was the NZHGPA training manager what a joke!! What do his students turn out like? if they even come back for the next day.

[petersb1289]

Isn't that Kevin Rooke training manager of NZHGPA? Didn't he ban that speed gliding dude John Smith?

[tsbedford69]

Rookie never fails to entertain. At least he remembered to hook in this time.