Between a cloud and a hard place
17 August 2016 - 09:30
A hang-gliding instructor mysteriously fell out of his two-seater aircraft and plunged to his death, leaving his shocked student to land alone, in one of five deaths of extreme sports enthusiasts in the French Alps at the weekend.A wingsuit jumper, two rock climbers, and a paraglider were the other four French national victims in the series of deaths that came as holiday-makers flocked to the mountain range.The fatal accidents began on Saturday, when the veteran instructor was giving a lesson to a student in Haute-Savoie.The pair were nearing a landing strip when the 49-year-old instructor, for unknown reasons, fell out of the aircraft and plunged 46m to the ground. ..
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