Saturday, January 24, 2015

Korean national dead after paragliding accident

Posted by Anup Baral January 24, 2015 :
One of the foreigners critically injured in a paragliding accident in pokhara district died during the course of treatment at Gandaki Hospital in Pokhara.The deceased foreigner identified as Huwang Yung, 46, a Korean national, who fell of the sky and crashed into the fewa lake. He was rescued and taken to the hospital but later died.
Video: Paragliding in Pokhara, Nepal

One of the foreigners critically injured in a paragliding accident in pokhara district died during the course of treatment at Gandaki Hospital in Pokhara.The deceased foreigner identified as Huwang Huwang, 46, a Korean national, who fell of the sky and crashed into the fewa lake. He was rescued and taken to the hospital but later died. He was a professional para-glider who is been doing this job in Pokahara for more then a year. It is believe that he fell of the shy while trying aerobatics paragliding.“Acro” is the freestyle discipline in paragliding, making all sort of spectacular tricks in the sky.It is performed with specially designed, small, fast and very dynamic wings. Nowadays more than 20 different acro tricks and maneuver connections are possible. Most of them require extremely precise piloting and hundreds of training hours.

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