Posted on 09/07/2009 6:55:42 PM PDT by Doogle
Six people were injured when a paramotor crashed Monday afternoon into a crowd at park in Hooper, Utah,
Witnesses told FOX13Now at least four people were taken away in ambulances.
According to a county dispatcher two people, including a 4-year-old girl were taken to a local hospital by helicopter.
(video at url)
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
..other news reports say the pilot was dropping candy to kids..(that may answer why everyone was running in the vid)
..but if he was landing you would have thought an area would have been set aside......shame for kids to get hurt over a stupid situation.
looks like they ran to the right, so he couldn’t land there. then they ran to the left when he went that way.
looked like he stalled right there at the end.
Very bad judgement on the part of the pilot.
poor crowd control...they should have set up another area for landing....at least
my thought exactly
Wow, sorry to hear/see this. We were almost at Willard this a.m. (late morning) to buy fruit and we saw this guy in the air. We’ve seen him flying around the area many times before.
Sec. 103.9 Hazardous operations.
(a) No person may operate any ultralight vehicle in a manner that creates a hazard to other persons or property.
(b) No person may allow an object to be dropped from an ultralight vehicle if such action creates a hazard to other persons or property.
Sec. 103.15 Operations over congested areas.
No person may operate an ultralight vehicle over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any open air assembly of persons.
There's only a page or so for ultralights, not too much studying needed...:^)
It is one of those crappy sites where the videos won’t play. Flash loads- I hit play and nothing happens. I wish it was on youtube. Sad story just the same.
maybe in a day or so
Yea... I hate it when there ie a ‘pause’ symbol over the video. I don’t have a guess on this one yet but something happened where he didn’t have a choice but to land in a crowd. I have a great video of a paraplane crashing into a fence., no one got hurt. Maybe the pilots pride...
There is more to this particular story than meets the eye. The NTSB will enlighten us to what that is in about a year or more from now. That’s the way it is unfortunately.
I shot the video most of you have seen (CNN, FoxNews, et al). When I sent it in, i didn’t put any thing on it. The pause symbols are from the software they’ve used to upload it.
I was THERE. It was a planned event (to drop the candy from the powerglider). When I saw what was going to drop the “junk”, I had a feelig it wasn’t going to go well. Then, when the pilot had to deal with a headwind on a craft that manipulates purely based on wind/air vs. much power, you can see he’s having a hard time coming in. HE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO LAND! The kids/people were there by design of the event planners.
He got too low (BEFORE he crashed). He was fighting the breeze &... it just went all wrong. I saw bodies fly and spun around as they were hit b/c they couldn’t get out of the way.
It was a mess. I think the best video comes on Fox. There’s actually a good 2-3 minutes that has been cut down to 30 seconds. Very telling, compelling stuff. Very sad. However, a MIRACLE nobody died or more people weren’t hurt.
I saw your video last evening on Channel 13. Thanks for sending it in.
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