Wednesday 3 August 2022 03:39 PM Paraglider falls to the ground when lines get tangled - before saving himself ... trends now
This is the terrifying moment a paraglider began falling to the ground when his lines got tangled in high winds, before managing to open his rescue shoot just 'one second' before it became too late to survive.
Kevin Philipp was paragliding in Organya, Spain, doing 'acro' - a freestyle discipline of paragliding that involves performing gravity-defying manoeuvres.
However, the Swiss daredevil got into trouble when he appeared to crash into his canopy (or wing) while pulling off a trick, causing him to get tangled in the cables.
To make matters worse, when he tried to release his first parachute, it failed to deploy because of the tangled lines - sending him plummeting towards the rapidly approaching ground.
Philipp posted footage - shot from a 360-degree camera on his helmet - of his near-death experience to YouTube on Monday, showing how the incident unfolded from a vantage point just above his head.
This is the terrifying moment paraglider Kevin Philipp began falling to the ground when his lines got tangled in high winds, before managing to open their rescue shoot just 'one second' before it became too late to survive
After crashing into the glider's canopy, the cables attaching Philipp to the paraglider became tangled around him and the canopy, causing the wing to crumple and trail behind him like a windsock (pictured) - as he began to accelerate towards the ground below
A separate video, shot from the ground, also showed just how quickly he was plummeting out of the sky - and his frantic scramble to save himself.
In the description of the video, he wrote on YouTube that his problems began when he encountered 'strong turbulence' while attempting an Acro paragliding trick.
'Acro paragliding trick in strong turbulence went wrong. Break line got stuck. Falling into the lines and wing made the rescue parachute throw quite hard,' Philipp said.
Footage from his helmet camera showed as he was performing a trick, Philipp lost control and crashed into his glider's canopy.
As he did so, the cables attaching him to the paraglider became tangled around him and the canopy, causing the wing to
