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Crash Into Trees New |
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Location:
Florida inland site, Debary |
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07/09/2010:1930 |
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Remarks: From news report:
"DEBARY -- A man trying out his motorized paraglider was injured when he crashed near a ballpark Thursday night, a sheriff's spokesman said.
Thomas Evers, 50, of Sorrento suffered injuries to his leg and abdomen and was airlifted conscious and alert to Halifax Health Medical (read
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Face Plant & Finger Loss New |
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Location:
Illinois grass field |
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07/03/2010: |
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Remarks: Pilot was struggling with motor inflations and had been instructed by his instructor not to launch, but to wait until the instructor returned from a flight. The student elected to launch anyway. After inflation, he wound up falling face down. After falling, he inadvertantly throttled up then reach (read
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Banking it up and wakes don't mix well. |
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Main & Bliss area near Batavia, IL. |
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06/26/2010:20:05 |
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Remarks: It was a nice calm, hot, humid evening. There may have been a wind of 1-2mph out of the NE. 5 of us were flying. The launch was not easy due to a high density altitude. The air was extremely smooth. There are corn fields on either side of a 2 lane country road. There is a clear path following a cree (read
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fatal paraglider and truck accident |
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Location:
columbia, IL |
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06/13/2010:10:56 a.m. |
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Remarks: KSDK -- A 40-year-old Ballwin man died Sunday morning in a paragliding accident near Columbia, Illinois.
The accident happened along Ramsey Road just before 11 a.m., according to Columbia Police Chief Joe Edwards.
The victim was attempting to take off from a field when he lost control of the (read
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Starting the engine can be unsafe New |
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Location:
Northeast USA |
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06/10/2010:1500 |
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Remarks: To start off - I did not get hurt. I purchased an PPG engine from Ebay and due to information I received with it I thought I could start it and fly on my own. Boy was I wrong! I filled the gas tank and placed the engine on the bed of my truck so I could get a good pull on it. With my son watching m (read
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power line |
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farm Mount Vernon, OH |
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05/28/2010:20:20pm |
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Remarks: Following a pilot induced engine failure, with plenty of maneuvering altitude, I selected a suitable field for an emergency landing. Everything looked good until i decided to try for a field a bit closer to my LZ (the error) with the sun in my eyes I did not see the power lines as I crossed a road t (read
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Tandem Helper Injured During Launch |
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Location:
Florida beach site |
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05/11/2010: |
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Remarks: The non-USPPA tandem pilot was launching in sand with a passenger. An observer, who was not involved, ran up to help by pulling on the pilot/passenger in an effort to helpful. There was already at least one person helping and this one who ran up had not been solicited to help.
Just after the pil (read
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Bent J-bars during aerobatic flying |
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Location:
Panama City Beach, FL |
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05/07/2010:1800 |
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Remarks: At Beach Blast 2010 event 6-9 May, I was a vendor and let pilots demo new equipment. One experienced pilot and known aerobatic pilot asked to test fly a new Miniplane standard model PFS 125cm. I agreed but did not give any specific suggestions even though I knew him to be an aerobatic pilot and shou (read
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Dust Devil Encounter |
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Location:
"Grasslands" Los Lunas, New Mexico |
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03/28/2010:1730 |
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Remarks: A friend and I were flying around 4:30pm for about 10 minutes when we decided to land and wait for the air to get a little more calm. The winds weren't gusting, but changing dirctions often. As 530pm came, the winds seemed to stabilize from the south at a light 3-5mph, light enough a forward launc (read
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Line over |
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Location:
Smyrna Airport Smyrna, DE |
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03/17/2010:1730 |
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Remarks: On launch I did not realize I had a line or lines over top right side of glider. Once in harness it made it worst, I could not brake it off. and climb rate was very little to none. I flew the glider the best I could. Missing powerlines, swamps/marsh, trees Upon looking for a crop field with little o (read
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Impact |
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Location:
Colorado Springs, Colorado |
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02/27/2010:1030 |
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Remarks: I had been practicing death spirals into wing tip drags and I came out of the maneuver with more energy than I had anticipated. The wing was really far behind and me and I made the choice to come off the throttle earlier into my climb out to prevent it from stalling. I realized this meant I would m (read
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Collision of two PPG trikes |
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Location:
Valley Creek Park, El Paso, TX |
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02/26/2010:15:00 |
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Remarks: Pilot one (not involved in the accident) attempted to launch but aborted. He was moving his wing and trike out of the runway area when the second pilot decided to launch. The first pilot's wing was moved but parked trike remained and was dead center in the take off run for the second pilot. Pilot (read
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Kiting in Strong Winds |
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Location:
Yuma, AZ |
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Remarks: Full description here:
http://footflyer.com/Safety/Incidents/2010-02-Glammis/jeff_goin_vs_the_dust_devil.htm
Pilot parked his motorhome on upwind and beside of a group of campers. After watching winds for 20 minutes, he did some kiting out in an more open area and found it manageable. Then he ki (read
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Pilot Goes In Ocean |
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Location:
Los Angeles, CA |
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01/06/2010: |
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Remarks: The very physically fit pilot was flying around the ocean waves, diving down around them, occasionally touching the tops. During one swoop, water spray caused the motor to quit and he immediately went into the water.
He struggled to get out of the harness, at one point having to go down to the bo (read
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