[kellyhound]

ouch!

[William May]

Certainly must have been a fatal accident.

[RiversEdge]

pit crew not doing their job.

[Bleed]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

Certainly must have been a fatal accident.

Nah, those rocks look pretty soft.

[nascarfan7]

I love to try and calculate how high people are and how fast they’re going when they hit the ground in these videos. Sadly this one is difficult with the two bodies, the drag of the chute and the inability to see when they land. Sorry folks.

[durt]

Good quality assurance on the equipment

[BigSnail34]

Paragliding accidents happen with regularity, unfortunately. Even among experienced enthusiasts. It is simply an inherently dangerous activities

I am reminded of Ng Kok Choong of Singapore, a man who died in a paragliding accident in India last year, despite being very seasoned. His demise was particularly sad because he was a brave man who was a genuine real-life hero.

This is long-winded, but I think his story needs to be told.

Mr. Ng was a recently retired real estate agent in his 50's and had taken up cometitive paragliding, which apparently is something that exists.

I call him a hero a for two reasons.

First (this is going to take a long-ass explanation) in his younger days, Mr. Ng had served as a soldier in Singapore's Armed Forces Commando Formation, or SAFCDOFN for short - which is retarded, but I digress -.which is an elite unit patterned after the SAS. CDOFN is most famous for Operation Thunderbolt; in 1991,4 heavily-armed attackers hijacked a Singapore Air Airbus A310 and took it's 100+ passengers hostage. Eventually negotiations broke down , and the hijackers thretened to kill a hostage every 10 minutes until their demands were met. In response, an SOF counter-terror team raided the plane, and killed all 4 terrorists with 0 passenger casualties in less than 40 seconds. Mr.Ng participated in the assault and killed one of the terrorists.

Second, about a month beforehis death, Mr. Ng was staying at a hotel in Sulawesi, Indonesia when it was hit by a 7.5M eathquake that killed thousands of people. Mr. Ng escaped the hotel as it collapsed, but upon hearing screams for help from people trapped by rubble as he exited the building, he reentered the hotel twice, first freeing a girl and carrying her to safety, and then attempting to free the girl's mother, whom unfortunately he could not reach.

I find it a rather sad irony that this man was killed by an errant gust of wind.

[minka1]

Originally Posted by bigsnail34 ↗

Paragliding accidents happen with regularity, unfortunately. Even among experienced enthusiasts. It is simply an inherently dangerous activities

I am reminded of Ng Kok Choong of Singapore, a man who died in a paragliding accident in India last year, despite being very seasoned. His demise was particularly sad because he was a brave man who was a genuine real-life hero.

This is long-winded, but I think his story needs to be told.

Mr. Ng was a recently retired real estate agent in his 50's and had taken up cometitive paragliding, which apparently is something that exists.

I call him a hero a for two reasons.

First (this is going to take a long-ass explanation) in his younger days, Mr. Ng had served as a soldier in Singapore's Armed Forces Commando Formation, or SAFCDOFN for short - which is retarded, but I digress -.which is an elite unit patterned after the SAS. CDOFN is most famous for Operation Thunderbolt; in 1991,4 heavily-armed attackers hijacked a Singapore Air Airbus A310 and took it's 100+ passengers hostage. Eventually negotiations broke down , and the hijackers thretened to kill a hostage every 10 minutes until their demands were met. In response, an SOF counter-terror team raided the plane, and killed all 4 terrorists with 0 passenger casualties in less than 40 seconds. Mr.Ng participated in the assault and killed one of the terrorists.

Second, about a month beforehis death, Mr. Ng was staying at a hotel in Sulawesi, Indonesia when it was hit by a 7.5M eathquake that killed thousands of people. Mr. Ng escaped the hotel as it collapsed, but upon hearing screams for help from people trapped by rubble as he exited the building, he reentered the hotel twice, first freeing a girl and carrying her to safety, and then attempting to free the girl's mother, whom unfortunately he could not reach.

I find it a rather sad irony that this man was killed by an errant gust of wind.

How did he die while parasailing?

[BigSnail34]

Originally Posted by minka1 ↗

How did he die while parasailing?

He was found on the ground by rescuers after not showing back up at his hotel. He had a massive head wound, and the rescuers speculated a strong wind gust damaged his chute and he fell to his death. I believe he was found with a gravity knife in his left hand, which would seem to imply that he was trying to cut himself free.

For what it's worth, the Straits Times, Singapore's main paper, tells a different version of the story of his earthquake rescue, saying that he and another paraglider from Belgium worked together and freed both the mother and daughter. I'm inclined to believe that, since Indian journalistic standards are...not good. The site I got the initial story from had an article titled "Another sex crime in the vile scoundrel village of Sanikatta. Should it be burned?"

[hellgate9876]

Originally Posted by bigsnail34 ↗

Paragliding accidents happen with regularity, unfortunately. Even among experienced enthusiasts. It is simply an inherently dangerous activities

I am reminded of Ng Kok Choong of Singapore, a man who died in a paragliding accident in India last year, despite being very seasoned. His demise was particularly sad because he was a brave man who was a genuine real-life hero.

This is long-winded, but I think his story needs to be told.

Mr. Ng was a recently retired real estate agent in his 50's and had taken up cometitive paragliding, which apparently is something that exists.

I call him a hero a for two reasons.

First (this is going to take a long-ass explanation) in his younger days, Mr. Ng had served as a soldier in Singapore's Armed Forces Commando Formation, or SAFCDOFN for short - which is retarded, but I digress -.which is an elite unit patterned after the SAS. CDOFN is most famous for Operation Thunderbolt; in 1991,4 heavily-armed attackers hijacked a Singapore Air Airbus A310 and took it's 100+ passengers hostage. Eventually negotiations broke down , and the hijackers thretened to kill a hostage every 10 minutes until their demands were met. In response, an SOF counter-terror team raided the plane, and killed all 4 terrorists with 0 passenger casualties in less than 40 seconds. Mr.Ng participated in the assault and killed one of the terrorists.

Second, about a month beforehis death, Mr. Ng was staying at a hotel in Sulawesi, Indonesia when it was hit by a 7.5M eathquake that killed thousands of people. Mr. Ng escaped the hotel as it collapsed, but upon hearing screams for help from people trapped by rubble as he exited the building, he reentered the hotel twice, first freeing a girl and carrying her to safety, and then attempting to free the girl's mother, whom unfortunately he could not reach.

I find it a rather sad irony that this man was killed by an errant gust of wind.

the wind didn't kill him the shithole quality Paragliding equipment made in India killed him