Hang gliding rescue parachute opening

[YAYaRayGun]

Lolz. If that was me i would have been hystarically crying XD

[bluemax185]

Yet another pullback latch failure - This is becoming a disturbing trend. Since you can’t stop pilots doing these types of stupid maneuvers, manufactures need to take note, though they probably won’t...!! 

[hunterziegelmann]

DO A BARREL ROLL >:O

[larrythelookout]

Fair play to him.

[Brav0ZuluForever]

Poor guy

How did it just snap like that?

[Skydivingkittens]

I shat my pants watching that.

[TrousersDPM]

That spin looked fast.

[flugfahrrader]

This video capture offers an excellent tutorial on just what can happen. As a beginner to the sport, I am grateful to have seen this and what can happen when pushing the kite to the limit.

The Schloss only adds to the value. danke fur sharing.

[Halobenzene]

They probably needed an extra big stretcher to support the weight of his ginormous balls.

[ogdemigod]

wow that was scary to watch

[ArtStone]

Is this like the high wire walker who almost falls off the wire every show to scare the audience?

[OneSkiWonder]

@ArtStone No, circus performers and acrobatic flying performs will never put their own life in excessive danger on purpose.

[fleyeboi]

unreal.... that spin after the wing broke looked intense. what a relief to see that reserve open. cheers bud.

[fenix159]

Actually those parachutes seem to be designed to land in water only... I really wouldn't want to land such a canopy on land, they are falling incredibly fast with no chance to flare.

[jwboll]

"tranquilizer"... more like Paralyzer!

Wow!

nice soft water landing. Parachutes are the best!!!

[DavidUmstattd]

Wow... I didn't know they could fly upsidedown like that.

[winterka100]

Antiqueeagle, Every aircraft flying is always falling at it's terminal velocity.If it is climbing it is falling at a negative t.v.If it is diving , it's t.v. will be faster.If the wings fall off,it's t.v. will be even higher.If a skydiver's chute detaches he will go really f'ing fast.Terminal velocity doesn't always mean high speed and death.

[klang66]

Ich glaub der Fredy Bircher macht das gerne....

[arpnlaei]

Wow, he's very lucky to have been able to pull that chute in that spin, that must have been a lot of G's.

[Rocksolid88]

@arpnlaei not only the G's, but the fact that the spinning wings didnt hit the chute while it opened. wow.

[jeffpetterson]

lucky bastard, be safe.

[helipilot727]

Surprised the glider didn't get caught up in the chute... looked very very close! wow

[tommytipitcup]

How much of that is bad luck and how much the pilot being to agresive?

[boardskateorfly]

it is not bad luck. ..just a poor executed maneuver. part of the game in aero.

[kidrichter2]

Don't do aerobatics in a topless hang glider! King post designs are much stronger.

[kcj1993]

What is a "top"?

[MindMyWordz]

omg.. i think in this situation i'd get unconscious - have the enormous g forces in mind...

[climb1028]

Nice job pilot! Gotta get a new rescue boat driver tho... drives right over the lines!

[obooth]

Holy shit, didn't look like enough air speed going into the first two loops, then a violent bar push out to snap what had to be the side wires. How the hell he got that chute out in that spin, that's gotta be practiced eh!

[discothief]

He's lucky the shoot didn't get caught up in the spin. Whoah!

[inagod]

years ago death,technology saves another life.

[neomuttley]

Sacre Cordon Bleu!!! Antique oval chute is better than nothing, but you can't steer the thing. They can't put a chute on their persons?

[dirkamus]

was this part of the act?

[Buddha2707]

Great footage.

[rscrobinmx99]

LAME ! ! !

[DarahCoolz]

look ike a dead butterfly lol

[CoolCousinz]

That was petrifying...

[evanacosta]

HOLLY COW, THATS SCARY

[Morpheus396]

Lucky man!

[1acroyear1]

1) and 2) Flying is a dream of mankind since we caveman days. It's a dream that we've achieved in only the last 100 years. As land animals we see the sky as free of predators, the ultimate vantage point and a safe place from which we can see all beauty and danger. The urge to fly is the primitive desire to "rise above" all mundane woes and toil.

3)The overloading stimulation lets one forget their problems and stress for a while but people who do this often have addictive personalities.

[Twisteddreamer78]

You've been watching to many Darwin Movies.....

[1acroyear1]

No, actually I read. But thanks for sharing your ideas on what you consider to be a principle source of information.

[Twisteddreamer78]

You've been reading too many Darwin Books then.

[HotBlueLightning]

1. the hang glide was invented and used in the 1400's. that is sorta flying i guess. i dont know why i numbered this response. it makes it seem official. rice.

[matijabl]

You meant 1940s right?

[HotBlueLightning]

no 1400's. BUT it was only a theoretical design by devince. It was not phisically constructed. His design for the most part of coarse would have worked, if the frame was not made out of wood..

[VolkgartenBySquirrel]

A very lucky SQB and a dead kite. THis could have ended differently.

[sn1054a]

lucky? very clever... that is why it is happening over water with emergency parachute. that is my favorite movie what I show to my student pilots

an isntructor

ricsi

[Paranoid061]

I really don't know because he was slowed by the glider but without the parachute the water don't give more safety,isn't it?

I really don't know, Im just learning and I don't wanna try to probe anything :p.

I think that the glidder was very clever waiting the moment to launch the parachute.

PD: English is not my language, sorry for any mistake.

[whitestar111]

hittin water at that height is like hittin cemete at 30 miles a hour

[acidosmosis]

Height has nothing to do with it. Speed has everything to do with it. That is the point of the parachute.

[TheFilmmeister]

I remember getting pretty bad turbulance one time when I was parasailing, can the same thing happen with hang gliding?

[an97an]

The exact same thing.

[ljsavmech]

surpriced his shut did not get tangled with all the filps he was doing during the deploying. and then not to have drowned. he need to know he is BLESSED

[Shadowhawk30]

I think I saw Wile-E-Coyote do this on looney toones... except he ended up a puff of dust on the canyon floor. Not smart.

[chueffer]

The speed that he was falling at probably wasn't much faster than the the 'chute.I think he would have easily survived on impact with the water. Not so on land of course.Of course if he landed on top of the glider it would not be so good.

[conrad2468]

1:50....thats the part where the boat full of nazis capture him....lol

[antiqueeagle62]

He fell for 14 seconds before the chute opened fully, spinning that fast he was lucky not to have passed out, he probably reached terminal velocity, so if he were closer to the ground it would have been over.

[NollieSk8]

yeah bitchin Gs on him.

sux when ur blood flows away from ur brain.

[MyNiggasInTheWhiteHo]

Hang gliders should NEVER try to do ANY tricks.

[fuzzywzhe]

I don't see any reason to do acrobatics when hang gliding, climbing thermals is fun enough and the view is spectacular. I've never even been tempted to do anything like that.

[MadaSkills1]

he shit bricks.

[DbozenD]

GJ< i am happey for him, when you spinn around that fast its hard to react properly, and not panic GJ, but i think he is a proffesional eny ways... Crazy

[OldHPAT145]

Great job getting chute out under huge G's, y'all be flying with a swivel. Am not an acro pilot, but have flown with the best(Chris) and must agree with fuku; very aggressive entry, them topless gliders sure do pickup and retain energy.

[grayzyko]

amazing

[flyhighadventure]

Tranquillizer 26/XXL-D > 55m2 - HG Version by High Adventure Switzerland.

[cheezta]

that parachute looks like it could easily get tangled in the glider, that looks suicidal dude.

[acrazedmaniac]

ya!!!i second that! thats why mine has a 7 meter line of 5/8" dynema blend with a swivel on it. used to get crap from others back in the late 80,s cause i had a light weight swivel, 8,000lb test. then willswing started putting this really heavy swivel on theirs ..till i went way out of my way to point it out to em, that it could get ahead of the line or tangle with the lines with the type 18 webb...which most have (hot wire cutting) this lucky guy most likely has a short bridal for opening time

[stanleycoutorocha]

What's yours parachute? It openned pretty quickly!!!

[fuzzywzhe]

> What's yours parachute? It openned pretty quickly!!!

It rests on your chest.

[AmericansSexualPreds]

why did this happen in the first place

[fuzzywzhe]

> why did this happen in the first place

The pilot was doing loop de loop flips and the glider collapsed under the strain. The entire glider is held together by wires and is made from aluminum. Looks like a wire snapped or possibly one of the tubes buckled. It's difficult to tell from the video.

Hang gliding is NOT a dangerous sport, but can be if you do unorthodox things like this. I have never desired to do acrobatics.

[webon60]

Statistics contradict your claim: hang gliding, like all other forms of recreational aviation, is dangerous.

[fuzzywzhe]

> Statistics contradict your claim: hang gliding

Basically the only way to get killed in hang gliding is being a total moron. You have never flown before, I can tell by what you're saying. I get a glider to collapse, you either have to never do a preflight or do crazy ass acrobatics. Over 50% of the deaths in hang gliding happen because the pilot forgets to hook in before jumping off a mountain.

[webon60]

I have over 1,000 hours of flying, and 1000's of miles of cross country. Saying that "...the only way to get killed in hang gliding is being a total moron..." is kind of an absolute, arrogant thing to say. Structural failure, aerodynamic loss, weather, psychological stress, inadequate training, excess of confidence, and some other reasons can result in a fatal or very serious accident. And saying that "hang gliding is not a dangerous sport" doesn't contribute to make it safer.

[fuzzywzhe]

> the only way to get killed in hang gliding is being a total moron..."

> is kind of an absolute, arrogant thing to say.

But it's true. Look at what you listed. You see an anvil, you get out of the sky, you learn that the FIRST DAY in class. If you have a structural failure on your glider, it's because you were doing jackass shit, like loop de loops, or more likely you damaged it in transport, and skipped the preflight check. 99% of fatalities in this sport is pilot error or stupidity.

[webon60]

No, is not. You can die because a bee got into your helmet during launch; or because a bump in the road caused some invisible damage to the tubing; or because you didn't saw that stone hiding on that otherwise-perfect field. Weather can give you nasty surprises, you don't need to launch on the middle of a blizzard to find yourself in big shit, specially during landing. And finally, we all have a moron inside, waiting to get out.

I don't mean we stop flying. But to pretend is SAFE is misleading.

[fuzzywzhe]

> But to pretend is SAFE is misleading.

Look, I used to bike at least 100 miles every week. Now THAT was dangerous. Being in the air, floating around, being pushed around a little bit and riding thermals, that isn't dangerous. You have nothing to run into, even if your glider collapses, you have a chute, your max velocity is under 40 MPH, and you have MINUTES to react.

The risks of hang gliding is FAR overblown, and the majority of accidents, as you WELL know, are from stupid mistakes.

[eelesey]

pilot did extremely well to deploy his reserve given his extreme rate of turn and the g-forces he had to withstand. The parachute bridle is lengthened to enable it to clear the aerial wreckage and behaved precisely as designed. The reserves are not cut-away on a hanglider.

[rheon78]

good demonstration of pilot control..

[sosna00]

bravo to pilot! it's not easy to open rescue in such conditions

[741741]

at other hang glider reserve deployments i see the chute is on a long bridle, i mean far away from pilot. by paraglider it isn't far away. whats de different?

[crazymxrider]

Did he have a malfunction on his reserve in this video? The cutaway is supposed to separate you from the glider itself? or no?

[feastonmyload]

no. its all attached.

[thedeanster18]

Can something this serious happen just by flying slowly "Coasting"?

[feastonmyload]

no. This happened because of high g loading on the wing. Only occurs with radical maneuvers like loops.

[xerxes2695]

A hang glider can take a higher G loading than almost any other aircraft, but when you do loops etc., you have to exceed the maximum rated speed (VNE) of the glider and you're in uncharted territory. He pushed it too hard and broke something.

[pendulum312]

Oh my god!

[ijp66]

what causes a glider to fold up like that?

[feastonmyload]

In this case it was the high g-loading on the base-bar (thing you hold on to)induced by radical aerobatic maneuvers (high speed entry into turns). Additionally the carbon base tube was apparently weakened by previous damage. This is one of the rare hang gliding accidents attributable to equipment failure. 99.9% are pilot error. A little bit of both in this one.

[fukyou1000]

Sorry - that was 100% pilot error - he just stuffed the bar out and broke it - loop entries have to much smoother than that.

[zitrone3000]

Sorry - fukyou1000 it was not a pilot error. Usually a hang glider can easily handle the forces while doing a looping, there is no doubt. But you can criticize his pre flight check. There was something wrong with the glider. If you have doubt in the toughness of a hang glider please check out the youtube video with the name: Bad hang glider loop

[fukyou1000]

If a glider is in 100% top condition, it might survive a loop entry like that one (very, very aggressive) - however it did not need to be that "violent" an entry hence I said that the Pilot broke it - it looked very much like the side wires gave way

[acrazedmaniac]

looks to me he was pulling about 5 or 6 g,s there.

believe me..i know!

i have flow with a accelerameter for about 900 hrs of flying time and loved to see what i could put on it. and most gliders will break at about +6 -4 g,s ...less if not smooth!!!!

[acrazedmaniac]

yes er yee! you are CORRECT! or....i agree with you...

he was going really fast! and pulled off quite a few amazing stunts in a row! can you say...adrenalin?

guess he was gad he had a... tranquillizer in his pocket! ....or guessing he didnt care if he...broke it!

[bigups43]

Holy fuck, that would be so scary. I have always wanted to try hang gliding

[ian9toes]

Do any of the acro guys use rocket (compressed air) deployed parachutes? I saw these advertised years ago.

[ruffles272]

i wanna go hangliding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[skysurferuk]

Well sorted, must've taken SOME throw! Top pilot.

[firehawkN]

looked like the glider going to hit the parachute and tangle up.... he almost died..

[1238pap]

wow

[alvise98]

hai fatto una cazzata,1 non si fa acrobazia con i cavi fini,2 il trapezio deve essere in acciaio.

ciao Alvise

[WingsOfaHeart]

What glider was that? Icaro?

[flyhighadventure]

No, it was a MOYES glider

[WingsOfaHeart]

As i have found it, he had a carbon base bar and thin wires..is this right?

[FCbisleybob]

landing in water scary how did you survive

[NBKH8]

Its over water on purpose, in case of a low altitude emergency (too low for parachute to open), the pilot is much more likely to survive if impacting water instead of solid earth.

[FCbisleybob]

ive seen paragliders doing chute testing over water. the harness is heavy dont think id like to try it without the saftey boat. what gave way on the glider was it not to spec for aerobatics or had a fault.

[WingsOfaHeart]

i think it had a carbon speed bar and 2mm side cables, no hangglidier is spec for doinfg acro BUT you can take extra precautions..2 important extra precautions 1. thicker and stronger side wires and 2. spped bar from aluminium and NOT carbon. I heard that in this accident the carbon speed bar snapped (probably from previous damage) so the safety cable in the bar when needed made the side cables snap under pressure.

[viagro1980]

I just bought my first glider without mast, and this video scares the shit out of me. I shore wont be doing any aerobatics vith it. It accelerates quite diffrently than my old WW super sport.

[dingorex]

Scary...I saw a man drown in a para-sailing accident when I was 8,,,This incident had great reaction by the boats as he could've got wrapped up in the parachute and drowned.

[buenacossa]

Sick! big balls dude... Fly carefully

[adonni]

Considering the amount of spin that was an incedible throw. You can tell how relieved the crowd were let alone the pilot.

Great piece of video.

[acrazedmaniac]

did the side wire(s) break?? or, cross bar? and why?

nice footage! and rescue, very lucky to get his chute away and free.

[flyhighadventure]

Fredy told me that his cross bar broke first.