Thursday, April 28, 2011

Paraglider left dangling from border observation tower

A hapless paraglider suffered a blow when a gust of wind took him off course landing him on top of a police border observation tower.



43-year-old Wolfgang Dorner, from Feldbach, Austria, was left dangling 100 ft up in the air when his chute and lines became snagged on the structure on the wrong side of the border in neighbouring Slovenia.

"He wasn't badly injured but he was very embarrassed and a bit nervous. It was a shock for him but not as big as the shock he gave the border guards he landed on," said one firefighter.



"But he was a bit worried because while he was waiting for us the lines holding him up were snapping one by one so he was very relieved to see us," he added.

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