So this is terrifying.
My dude here was out for a casual day of defying the God who created him with two perfectly good legs and no wings to speak of, when out of nowhere his harness gives way!
He barely catches the bar and takes a pretty violent landing. And in this video he walks you through the step-by-step of what went wrong, and warns other pilots how to avoid a similar disaster.
Drop in around 2:20 for the moment it happens.
😲 😨 😱
Considering how hard he lands, he walked away with relatively minor injuries.
From the video description:
I made a critical error during my setup which caused my harness to separate from my wing and forced me to hold on to the control frame for my life. Fortunate circumstances led to me surviving this incident with relatively minor injuries...
I wondered why he didn't ditch in the ocean, and apparently a lot of people have asked him the same question. Here's what he said.
I was asked if I thought about landing in the ocean to possibly soften the landing. In the moment I had not thought of doing this, however I don't think that I would've decided to do so given my fast rate of decent, the low tide, and the fact that I risked not being able to swim while in my harness (although the risk of being trapped under my wing might have been significantly less considering I was no longer connected to it).
