Fatal powered paraglider accident 19/9/2021

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https://www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/news/man-killed-and-woman-injured-in-paraglider-crash-251590/

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They have been named...A 54-year-old man has died and a woman has been seriously injured in a paragliding crash.

Emergency services were called at about 16:45 on Saturday to the incident, near Loch Na Gainmhich in the Highlands.

The conservationist and adventurer Sacha Dench, and her support Dan Burton, were in the final stages of a challenge to circumnavigate Britain.

The charity Conservation Without Borders said Mr Burton was killed and its founder Ms Dent, seriously injured.

The pair were flying the battery-powered paramotors to mark the forthcoming UN climate change conference in Glasgow.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-58615590

[biscuit74]

Nasty. Any mid air collision is bad news, but in a paramotor, essentially there is no protection at all !

Most of the Round Britain effort done successfully, just the section down the West Coast back to Glasgow left. Sorry to hear of this.