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Powered Paragliding - What Goes Up ... Must Come Down

by John Black
(Colorado Springs, Co)

What goes up must come down!

This is me John Black 2 seconds into what should have been certain death. Fortunately for me I hit a power pole on the way to the ground and sustained a broken back. I am now flying again with little effects from the crash.

"What goes up...must come down. How you come down is another story" John Black 2008

(Webmaster's note: I hesitated before deciding to publish this powered paragliding pic, not wanting to put people off the sport. John, if you see this, please contact me via the About page on this site. Let's try and get a safety lesson out of it somehow, and add that here!

Everyone else - any comments on the pro's and cons of publishing this type of image / story?)

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Here is the PPG Radio Interview with John Black and Chris Santacroce
by: Adam

http://www.poweredparaglidingradio.com/archives/2008/2008-01-15-show.mp3

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Nothing learnt
by: piloto

What is the reason? It is very useful for others.

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Whats the point
by: Anonymous

The image is fine but stalled/hit big thermal flying in the wrong conditions there is no explanation there for no reason to show o knowledge has o results = nothing learnt

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collapsed wing
by: Anonymous

My question is " why did this happen in the first place?" Darren -Connecticut Paragliding School

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Picture
by: Anonymous

Posting this pic doesnt do anyone any good without the story behind it. What happened?

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Effect On The Sport
by: Tim P.

Point taken, Samson. For now, its low rating (number of stars) will keep it down at the bottom of the list. Hence, it will get much less exposure after it drops off the site blog page.

If I eventually get a response from John, the pilot involved, I'll update the story that goes with the photo.

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Usefulness Of Accident / Incident Report
by: Samson

Any accident or incident with an explanation from someone with good flying background present on the spot will always help the flying community.

Publishing pictures without a report may harm the sport.

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Could Be Informative
by: Daddy Bruce

Yes, as noted on the other comments, this could be a good opportunity for someone to learn something from this event/accident.

Whenever I come across videos/photos of things going wrong, I try to examine it as closely as possible to ascertain what may have occurred as a chain of events prior to the mishap. I would much rather learn from someone else's mistakes than my own!

A detailed step-by-step of this flight would be appreciated by others like me, I'm sure.

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Ditto
by: Tim P.

Yes Kestrel, my thoughts exactly! To take it a stage further, how will he prevent it from happening again...

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Background / Lessons
by: Kestrel

Rotor? Equipment failure? Stall? It would be nice to learn something about the events leading to the photo and power-pole catch.

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