‘Can’t believe I’m sitting here’: Paraglider escapes death after plane rips through glider - BERITAJA

A female paragliding complete the Austrian Alps survived a horrifying mid-air collision aft a mini level flew done her glider sending her spiraling retired of power thousands of feet successful the air.

The 44-year-old female was paragliding complete the Piesendorf area of Salzburg connected Saturday erstwhile a aviator flying a scenic formation struck her, according to the Salzburg State Police. The 28-year-old aviator told authorities he was incapable to debar the collision.

A position of Piesendorf, Pinzgau, Salzburg province, Austria.Wolfgang Weinhäupl / imageBROKER via Getty Images file

“The propeller of the centrifugal level severely damaged the paraglider, prompting the knowledgeable paraglider to deploy her reserve parachute,” constabulary said.

The female made an emergency landing and was airlifted by a constabulary helicopter. Both she and the aviator escaped superior injury, according to police.

Authorities did not place her, but a female named Sabrina posted video of the collision to her Instagram account. She did not instantly respond to a connection from Beritaja connected Sunday.

The video shows her gliding serenely alongside a stunning Alpine ridgeline erstwhile the distant buzz of an motor could beryllium heard. A mini achromatic craft abruptly enters the framework and tears done the canopy conscionable feet supra her head.

She originates to spiral and suffer altitude earlier calmly reaching for the grip of her emergency parachute. The reserve chute deploys without rumor and she slows her descent.

Her look is retired of framework aft the deployment, but muffled exclamations could beryllium heard complete the wind. The shredded remains of her glider way down her successful 2 pieces, still attached to her harness.

She managed to free her feet from the harness arsenic she quickly descended rapidly, narrowly avoiding a shrub earlier rubbing down connected a grassy patch.

The video ends pinch her taking disconnected her cogwheel and catching her activity aft the terrifying ordeal.

“I really still can’t judge that I’m sitting present typing this,” she wrote successful the caption, per an automated translation, adding that she had escaped pinch small much than bruises.