His death-defying experience has already been viewed nearly a million times and gathered more than 1,000 comments since it was uploaded Monday to his YouTube channel, “Gursk3. “The landing was a rough one, but I lived to tell the story,” Gursky wrote in the caption of his YouTube video. The man tore his left bicep tendon and fractured his right wrist, the Daily Mail reports. Gursky was finally able to let go as the glider neared a field. Chris Gursky shared his extremely frightening near-death experience. The pilot appears to struggle to get the glider back down. A rider's first hang-gliding flight turned harrowing after the pilot forgot to hook the man into the tandem safety harness. He holds tight even as the glider ascends up well above the tree line. Gursky clings to the glider and pilot with only the strength of his fingers keeping him from plummeting to the ground below. An American tourist has had a horrifying experience when launched on his first hang gliding flight, without being attached to the glider’s frame The incident took place in the Swiss Alps a couple of months ago but became known recently, when the protagonist of this nearly. It was his first day in Switzerland and his first time hang gliding, the Daily Mail reports.Įverything was ready for takeoff - except for his safety harness.Ĭhris Gursky, of Florida, shared the video which shows the moment he and his pilot realized he was not secured to the glider and his 2 minutes and 14 seconds of sheer terror. Hang Glider Launched Unattached Swiss Alps. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. 14 seconds I had to hang on for my life! The landing was a rough one, but I lived to tell the story."Ĭhris says he plans on trying hang gliding again, since he didn't get to enjoy his first flight.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Im finally back here on my youtube channel with a much hyped announcement. "While the pilot made a critical error in our pre-flight setup by not attaching me to the Glider, he did all he could to get me down to the ground as quickly as possible, while grabbing on to my harness and flying with one hand." Hang Gliding, Paragliding, Trikes, Texas Summer Action, Mexico Winter Action. He also tore his left bicep tendon because of how long he held onto the hang gliding bar.Īs Chris wrote in the video, it beats the alternative.
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Gursky survived the landing, but did end up fracturing his right wrist, which required surgery to install a titanium plate and seven screws. Eventually, the pilot brings the hang glider low enough for Gursky to safely let go and fall to the ground. Making things even more difficult, is the pilot is trying to hold on to the passenger with one hand, while attempting to steer the hang glider with the other. The next few minutes are spent by the two men trying to get to terra firma as quickly as possible. Because of Gursk3's predicament, the pilot was.
In the video, Gursky and the pilot run to take off, and soar into the sky, but a 'fun' ride quickly turns desperate as the pair realizes the harness hadn't been tethered to the craft. So instead Gursk3 was forced to hold onto his guide for a harrowing two minutes and 14 seconds as the man in charge found a safe (ish) place to land. "My first time hang gliding had an unexpected twist when I left the ground unattached from the glider," Gursky wrote. Instead, he found himself clinging for dear life to the aircraft for the longest 2 minutes 14 seconds of his life.Īccording to Gursky, the pilot was supposed to strap him into the hang glider, but shortly after take-off, the pair realized his harness hadn't been attached to anything at all. An American tourist who wanted to try hang gliding for the first time while on vacation in Switzerland posted some harrowing footage of his "near death experience" to YouTube after his pilot forgot to attach his harness to the aircraft.Ĭhris Gursky posted footage to his YouTube channel of his first-time hang gliding experience in Switzerland that was supposed to see him gliding gracefully through the clear blue Swiss skies.
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