When we see a Hang glider fly in the sky, many people will probably think of flying paperclips with a man attached to it, right? Not quite. “The first lesson is that you check before starting that everything is good, and that everybody is attached.” Boppart said serious injuries from Hand gliding in Switzerland are rare. “The pilot knew he made a terrible mistake, but afterward he made a good save,” Boppart said. What a hero.Ĭhristian Boppart, director of the Swiss Hang Gliding Association, said he knew who the pilot was but wanted to respect his privacy as the matter is taken up by authorities. Chris is planning to go Hang gliding again though as he did not get to enjoy his first flight. “It wasn’t my time, I was going to hold on as long as I possibly could.” He was confused as to what was going on initially with the takeoff: “Holding on for my life …Losing grip the whole way down.” “For 2 minutes and 14 seconds I had to hang on for my life!” he says about the scary scene, in which he hangs onto the glider as the aircraft soars at top speeds over a picturesque Swiss valley, before the pilot managed to make an emergency landing.īecause of the accident Chris Gursky tore his left bicep tendon in the crash, and had to have surgery on his wrist.
“I just glanced down, and said this is it: I am going to fall to my death,” he said on Fox News’ “Sheperd Smith Reporting”. “My first time Hang gliding had an unexpected twist when I left the ground unattached from the glider,” Gursky captioned the clip of his “near death experience.” He titled the video “Swiss Mishap” and it has since gone viral with over 7 million views. Even after the mistake, you have to give credit to the pilot for saving Chris’ life by staying calm and putting all his skills to the test.Ĭhris himself created a video of the scary incident and shared it on Youtube on November 26. The pilot did all he could to get Chris down asap, while flying the glider with one hand and grabbing on to Chris’ harness. The pilot made a critical error in the pre-flight setup by not attaching Chris to the glider. He accomplished this feat at 4,000 feet and at 45 mph+ in order to avoid a certain fatal fall.
When the pilot of the Hang glider took off from a mountainside with Chris on his left side, it became clear that the poor passenger wasn’t attached at all, compelling him to clutch onto the glider with his bare hands for more than 2 minutes. The incident took place during Chris Gursky’s recent trip to Interlaken, a beautiful city in Switzerland.
A man from Florida – enjoying his first day of vacation in Switzerland – was forced to ‘hang on’ to the Hang glider, after the pilot reportedly forgot to attach him to the aircraft.
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