SHOCK VIDEO: Woman Fights for Her Life After Her Paraglide Is Shattered by Small Airplane
The possibility that a plane will hit you as you paraglide is small – but never zero.
It was supposed to be a beautiful and relaxing day in the Austrian hills, but as Sabrina flew her paraglider, danger came flying.
Shocking footage has arisen showing the moment a small plane tore through her paraglider’s canopy midair, sending her spiraling through the sky, before a miraculous landing had her safely on the ground.
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The New York Times reported:
“The paraglider, a 44-year-old woman named Sabrina, posted footage of her flying near the scenic Schmittenhöhe mountain in northern Austria Saturday afternoon when a small sightseeing plane suddenly plows right through her rig — just feet above her head.
She screams as she starts to spin out of control, desperately trying to deploy her emergency parachute, harrowing footage shows. The canopy appears to have been split in half after it was struck.”
🚨 WATCH: A paraglider gets hit by a Cessna 172 near the Austrian town of Zell am See.
The paraglider was able to pull her rescue parachute and land safely shortly after the incident on Saturday.
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“She was somehow able to get untangled and deploy the emergency chute as she plummeted towards Earth.
Her camera captured her finally landing hard with a loud grunt.”
Kronen Zeitung reported (translated from the German):
“’May 23, 2026 Happy 2nd Birthday to me’ — with congratulations on her own ‘second birthday’, the paraglider (44) who survived a mid-air collision with a Cessna in Salzburg on Saturday is now reaching out to the public. And that’s with just ‘a few nasty bruises’, as she herself writes in the caption to the video showing the entire incident from her perspective.
‘The day a Cessna 172 knocks you out of the sky while you’re paragliding… I still can’t believe I’m sitting here typing this and that, aside from a few nasty bruises and some general soreness, nothing really happened’.”
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