A day after the dying of a Belgian paraglider, one other tragedy struck as a Czech paraglider was killed in Himachal Pradesh’s Manali on Wednesday after crashing right into a mountainside, information company PTI reported.
This brings the variety of paraglider fatalities within the area to 2 in simply two days, simply earlier than the Paragliding World Cup 2024, set to start on November 2 in Bir-Billing, usually known as the ‘paragliding paradise’ in Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh.
The deceased, recognized as 43-year-old solo paraglider Dita Misurcova, reportedly misplaced management attributable to robust winds and crashed close to Marhi in Manali. She was instantly taken to a hospital, the place medical doctors declared her lifeless. Misurcova was an skilled paraglider, having been within the sport for six years.
On Tuesday, a Belgian paraglider died in Bir-Billing after a mid-air collision with one other paraglider triggered his parachute to fail.
In the meantime, a 50-year-old Russian nationwide, Aleksei Kozlochkov, handed away on Monday attributable to a suspected coronary heart assault in his lodge room in Bir.
Officers instructed PTI that Tuesday’s incident occurred when two paragliders, who took off individually, collided mid-air, ensuing within the dying of Belgian paraglider Feyaret and accidents to a Polish paraglider.
Ten paragliders had been airborne on the time of the incident, and two collided mid-flight. Kangra district’s deputy director of tourism, Vinay Dhiman, confirmed that the Belgian paraglider’s parachute didn’t open after the crash, resulting in his deadly fall.
The possibilities of accident improve when the free fliers enterprise into high-risk zones or interior valleys with little information of the topography and the native wind circumstances, he stated, including, “We’re within the technique of documenting the thermals within the Bir-Billing space with the assistance of consultants to cut back the likelihood of accidents whereas flying.”
In October 2023, three paragliders — Russian, Polish and Indian — had been killed in per week whereas paragliding. The November 2-9 World Cup will see participation from 130 paragliders from 50 nations.
