Hang Gliding crash - A tree saved my life - 4K 

Hey man. I'm glad that you survived. Man. I couldn't believe when you tried another 360° turn at that altitude. You are lucky to be alive man. Never turn 360 at low altitude! I think this kind of accidents happen when you are learning. U are lucky that you didn't hit your head man. I had an accident paragliding a few months ago and I hited my head and I have amnesia of that day! Every single day after an incident is a gift bro. I'm going to fly back in two more months! XD

"On my Hang Gliding course - 2nd high launch flight " Who the **** did you have as instructor? Cound be great info so other can avoid the person.

Never fly in such high winds as a new pilot on a single surface. These things are common wisdom in the hg/pg community. Stay within your skill level. 25kph max winds for your fist 40hours

Those winds look terrifying for a second high launch ON A COURSE! So glad you made it out okay.

Thanks for sharing this video with the community 🙏!

Turning low over a cut in the soarable rim will most often accelerate the wind speed within the cut/saddle. Mini wind shears will lurk along with turbulence. So as not to get sucked into a Venturi cross the cut/saddle further out front in the ridge lift. Or wait for more altitude before crossing.

Glad you ok. From what I see glider was flying way to slow. Speed = controls and safe handling and will get you out of a tight spot

right wing stall , induced by sharp right turn , you lucky that tree was there. could of been much worse . glad you ok

There's some opportunity to learn here. Even though this did go well there are some things that should be praised: Your launch is smooth and controlled and you wait till you are clear of the ground before going prone. Even though you got overpowered and ended up crashing, you tried to fly the glider the whole time, if something didn't work then you tried something else, that is the right way! That harness is not ideal. It is too big for you and the single suspension with the backplate probably makes it more demanding than the glider, it is also heavy. If you can, change to a simpler beginner harness while you learn, when you want to upgrade get an advanced harness that fits. This is the start of the challenging part of the day. For only your 2nd high flight it would be much better to launch either earlier before thermal conditions get strong, or closer to the evening where conditions will be smoother. This would not have happened in a calmer part of the day. You just need more experience and time to learn how to better control the glider and react. On your next flights you should insist on flying mid-morning or closer to evening, once you get a better feel for flying at these times then you can start working towards flying in these or stronger conditions. You simply did not have the experience or perfected the technique enough to deal with this situation, but you will. I also saw the 360 video. It looks like you are moving your shoulders more than your body and your arms are tense. You started a right turn well, but your technique wasn't good enough to turn you left. It was classic cross controlling and your motions cancelled each other so that nothing happened. When you couldn't turn left (and this is because you did not move your body weight over) -- Look at your body at 1:10, you are twisting your shoulders, but your hips and feet are still towards the right side, this will not turn the glider! -- then you changed to something you could do and turned right more, which was not a bad idea, but it was too much and you still were not able to move your weight to the left enough to turn left! On that very last turn just after you missed the tree you pushed out, this made you turn tighter but loose airspeed. On one hand this cost you any chance getting out of the turn, but probably saved you from hitting the light post (probably very bad) or hitting the ground or rocks (very bad), the tree was the safest thing to crash into. Lucky. Work on your controls, improve your technique, and get more experience. Fly a lot in calmer conditions. Move your feet and hips to one side to turn, your weight has to move not just your head and shoulders. I saw you twisting your shoulders, work at twisting your whole body with your arms and keep your shoulders more neutral. Practice turning one way and then the other way. Do this at trim, do it while pushing out, do it while pulling in (and notice how much better you can turn while pulling in), spend time learning how the glider reacts and refine your controls. When you pull the bar in do not push down on the bar like doing pushups (I can see this in your video, it is because you got tense while this happened), instead pull the bar towards your belly. When you can turn precisely, then increase the turbulence. Sometimes it will be very strong and turning will be hard, but you will be much better at dealing with it.

I don't have time for a paragraph, so I'll sum it up. Need more instruction.

despite the accident, never stop flying, big hug man!!

There appears to be a steep part of the ridge directly up wind of where you hit the olive tree. In a 30-35 kilometres of wind you appear to have been flying in rotor turbulence. Due to the strong wind gradient in these areas it is often best to avoid high banked turns as the reduced wind speed over the lower wing can increase the bank angle as the glider is spiraling down into the rotor.

I’m confused why are you still circling when altitude was so low? what was the objective there? When you can see the details in the grass below you it’s time to land. Glad you’re okay. Launch looked good.

The instructor should NEVER let you fly in those conditions until you have more experience. You are not ready for strong thermal conditions. It's so hard to tell in the video, but you could have pulled the bar in getting more speed. It's much easier to turn. Have you been taught the J turn? Not to cross steer?

You walked away to fly another day 🙏😁

Hi glad you made it out okay and sorry about your hang glider. I'm not a pilot yet but I would love to hear more detail on what happened and what might be done to keep control. Incredible video and glad you shared it to help others in the future.

In any case you're targeting the right spot... the graveyard! 360° at low altitude and near the relief ??? You are really, really a lucky person that you survived this!

I think the collision knocked the variometer and it switched to being an EKG.

Classic mistake. You are very lucky to get away with this...... Live and learn....

Lucky you had that tree there! Glad you're ok. For as much as this video's POV is worth, I'd say that some more speed instead of turning right was safer. A 360 turn so low and right above the hill top with this wind speed means you'll end up in it's leeside almost certainly. But hey, I wasn't there. Best to discuss this with your instructor and work on a key lesson to avoid such accidents in the future. This doesn't look like a hard type of a flying site if you're just going for a glide. Correct me if I'm wrong.

saved by an olive tree !

Ouch that must’ve hurt. I never crashed in a tree. I done paragliding for a long time, but I never had this happen.

I saw the telephone lines it looks like pilot was confronted with. That turn right was only way out im thinking .

As soon as he took off, I knew he was in trouble. Dude wasn't shifting his entire body weight from side to side, ie. he would shift his torso to the left, and his legs would swing to the right, and visa versa.

Trees are like life savers in Disguise

From the look of the terrain and wind strength that's not a beginners slope to be having a second high flight from. Lucky your ok. That downwind lock out comes in fast..

Now what did that tree ever do to you? ;) Glad you're okay and able to continue to learn.

Unfortunately your instructor was wrong launching you with this speed wind. Some aspects need to be studied like rotor effect and how to evite this situation.

I think that tree saved him serious injury

I wouldn't circle and turn into the hill at that low, turn toward the wind. glad that tree was there, it could be worse.

The turn was way too sharp. Lift was lost, resulting in crash. You had so many good landing areas, so why were you kissing the tree studded area?

what was the speed? 40 km/h?

Was that a spiral dive got into?

I did something similar not long after I learned 30 years or so ago now. Don't feel to bad. It looked like you were cross controlling the glider I think. Body to the left, legs to the right, why it was not coming out of the turn. They are not really intuitive or easy things to fly hang gliders. It's easier to start with a paraglider.

The strap you hang from is your yoke. You need to move your body weight (all of it) in the direction you want the yoke to control your flight.

Hello Navad.... I see that you are still well. We are Joan & Adriana

when a down wind dragged me into a down spiral, a total loss of control

It doesn’t help trying to land crosswind in a windward slope lift. While still high and infront of the road he could have just headed down slope to the flat fields below…why try to land on the slope at all?

REALLY bad flying ! Pilot hanging too high. Pilot flying too slow. Pilot flying in conditions that he was not prepared for.

Why? Was there someone you were flying with that you had to impress with your thermaling skills. You gave yourself absolutely no margin of safety. Yes, a bold maneuver to try to bench up the mountain with what’s being funneled up over the ridge but as someone pointed out the airflow flowing over the top of steep section just to the left probably would have a little fall off (rotor) back down towards the hill. Because of that there’s likely be some mixing, or turbulence. In other words air complex enough that even the best of pilots would be hard pressed to predict and fly within.

Glad you made it, but you always flying in a pre stall position..

No experience ,wrong glider and turning low well be happy to be alive

I could see from the beginning that you have no a good control of the glider. You might could thinking in landing soon as your legs were not straight into the harness. Then I think you wanted to correct the first turn and you moved your body to the left, but not your legs to the same direction and also you did not speed up the glider at that time. Then I think what happened is that though it worth to keep in the turn but the inertial force of the previous turn and the turbulences close to the floor made you to lose the control. Glad you are fine, do not ever turn if you are below of the cliff and close to the mountain, make 8 turns instead, specially with that glider. We all had stuff like that so I wish you good luck and keep it learning!

Didn't look like you had loss of control, you intentionally kept spiralling.

For what it's worth. The pilot is not flying the hang glider, instead the hang glider is flying the pilot...a bag of sand instead of a pilot would have faired just the same. Points: Take off and landings are crucial skills that can't be overstated. The pilot should be in charge 100% of the time (except in case of equipment failure), anything other than that, and you'd be in trouble.

De haber picado en su primer giro ...No habría tenido problema ...e incluso en el segundo giro también tenía tiempo de corregir ...sin dudas es un piloto nuevo ... Si había comunicación por radio y lo estaban asistiendo ..tendrían que haberle dicho los comandos o lo que tenía que hacer para salir de esa situación ya que había bastante tiempo para hacerlo !!!

Honestly this looked completly avoidable. Never roll in so low, specially if you are not getting lift and just dropping. Finally follow the ridge by always turning away from the hill not torwards the hill as a general rull unless you really have a safe margin which you didn't have at all. thanks for sharing

So lucky he hit the tree, not the mountain.

Hope hes fine!

En el 1:04 comienza el giro ... 1:13 inclina más su cuerpo a la derecha...ocea para el lado que está efectuando el giro... esto hace que acentue más el giro e incluso la pica un poco más... dándole un poco más de velocidad ... pero luego se ve que sólo la deja volar sin comando ... pero no se ve nada raro en el ala con respecto al viento ... el lugar se ve hermoso para el vuelo en ala !!! Si este comentario llega a el piloto ...quería decirte ...que bueno que fue leve el accidente ... Que no te asustes ni busques cosas raras en el viento.. o cosas que te sugestionen...sólo fue un par de malas maniobras !! Por ser un piloto nuevo ... pero con asistencia por radio con alguien que sepa leer y darce cuenta de ciertas situaciones ... No te debería volver a pasar !!! Así que vamos arriba .. esto sirve de experiencia para ti y para quienes estamos volando ... así a no aflojar y buenos vuelos !!!❤💪 saludos desde Uruguay!!

Easy to talk about an accident afterwards, but serious comments should b wellcome.

Glad you made out okay. I am noticing as a non pilot that a lot of the crashes come from low turns. Note taken. lol

Estabas girando pegado al rotor y sotavento del cerro de sabora, esta es una zona de no sustentación y turbulenta, no tenía sentido girar en ese sitio. Me alegro que todo acabara bien, podría haber sido fatal.

He's heading to a nice steep face and can probably play there for over an hour. He makes a right turn....oh no! he makes a right 360...oh no! another 360 behind that sweet steep face....tree. Looks like brainlock. What's up with flying a rotor harness so early in training? Slick harness on a single surface makes me giggle. Glad you're ok.

You clearly zagged when you should’ve zigged. Happens to the best of us

That looks like one of the spots in Algodonales😀

What the heck...why turn towards the hill with no altitude? Then you keep turning with no effort to correct...totally unavoidable.

Luck Guy. glad you are doing well. in flight school you didn't learn how to steer with some speed.

Avoid that rotor spot like you're life depends on it..Give yourself some lee side room when milking ridge lift.

Ouch

Looks like you need more time at the training hill….

as far as i can see, i wasn't there, your takeoff and handling was superb! only i wonder -:::- instead of going straight - straight ahead to the landing site, why 360* !!!!! go one final approach,,, flare,,, an pusche it's that simple!!!!! 👍

The “glide” was piloting not him! He should have speed up more and give direction to his glide...He let his glide fly for him...Glad he’s alive and well...🙏

I don’t understand why you make 360 so close to hill.clad to be safe

What is "Hand Gliding"?

Way to soon for high mountain Get back to the sand dune Get a lesson from Zack Majors first thing when in doubt pull in

More training mate and be concentrated to keep your body perpendicular to the control bar in each of your movements

no speed , stall speed.. no control.

Too slow too low. Have some speed in windy conditions and a safe distance. In turbulence you can fall 30ft in a snap. In open air no issue. If you spiral, the leg towards the mountain is pretty fast because you have to add the windspeed. Some beginners tend to push because thats scary. But without speed you are only a spectator of your crash.

Alhamdulillah, pilotnya masih diberi kselamatan.

Looked to me like you went behind the hill into rotor. (and into descending air) That square area of houses and trees looked to be in the lee of any Ridge lift. Then it looks like you pushed the bar out resulting in no air speed. But in rotor even if you put some speed on you may still find yourself in heavy sink. Stat well in front of the hill and make S turns into wind. 360's in strong wind are for when you have more experience

In higher winds or ridge lift… figure 8’s is your friend

Enjoy the life you have been very lucky. I hope for you you have learn to fly corectly since that accident or just stop and keep on the ground. I dont read the description you made and on first second of video i realize your are totally beginner in high conditions. YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE TAKE OFF with your experience. I dont know who tell you you can fly at this moment but this is the primary mistake. A lot of accident happens like too hard conditions for the skill of the pilot. Air is invisible but it is like water... nobody who beginning will never go in a huge river whith a canoe but stay in the lake... For hanggliding and paragliding the real security is before the start... Really 2nd hgh fly like this...change instructor or take one really better!

I'd say he hit a tree not a mountainside

Crashing a malibu like that requires special talent or lack of instruction! But hey, shit happens. Just get more instruction and experience before thermaling close to terrain.

O quê salvou ele foi a árvore.

Hello Nadav Lavy, is it possible to contact you regarding this video (i.e. via email)? We would be interested to discuss a license to use this video if this is generally possible to discuss? :) Cheers, Felix

My suggestion, get more training, you were lucky,next time you will not. Fly out, dont mess close to the moutains. Fly save

To get out of a spiral, PULL and lean other side (out of spiral). You instead PUSHed. Very bad.

You flew too far behind the ridge. You flew into the rotor from the front ridge. Never go low behind the ridge in high wind. Remember your basic micro-meteorology. You were blessed, seems you were on the edge of the rotor, i watched a hang4 pilot pancaked onto the top of the ridge by a rotor, he forgot too. Control bar, both down tubes, punched a hole in the wing, and needed the hospital. If you learned this lesson, you were lucky, if you haven't, or if you forget, it will happen again.

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jesus christ man, you almost killed yourself in this crash, or else you were paraplegic, it was luck that you hit the tree. but tell me, what did you want to do? spiral? get well, be carefull

Flying isnt dangerous. What is dangerous is crashing.

To next time be care full

Hahahahaha yeee haaa!! Moyes Gliders are crap

if humans were ment to fly you would have wings.

what are you doing flying hang gliders?