para-glider brought down by bird attack
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15554333

not the kind of sh!t you want happening at high altitute

:eek:

Don't mess with the birds :D

If you are in their space you play by their rules :lol1:

As a paraglider pilot myself I might have seen that a few times over the last few days. We had something similar here in Spain with a Vulture in lines, didn't bring the wing down but the vulture slid down the lines and started ripping at the pilot! He managed to land - bleeding - and kill it, alright I made up the killing piece.

Myself I've had my wing collapsed by Condors in Argentina plucking at it from above. They were big buggers.

Bloody birds, mad at us for flying as well as them:mad:

We ought to start killing birds that walk about on the ground...........






Only joking, fellow bird-lovers:D

used his reverse parachute? shouldnt that be reserve lol.

altho im not familiar with pilot terminology? maybe it was his reverse chute?

I was thinking the same thing... Stupid bint.. maybe thats why he was going backwards?

+2 :lol1:

Looks like the one top right,

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BR1LmlQX89...ry%2Bbirds.jpg

Fascinating story.

We were doing a low level navigation leg in a Vulcan in Italy once and we were in a mountaineous area. We were approaching a sharply defined ridge when a large bird appeared, probably an eagle of some kind, and it was flying straight at us. I turned to miss it but the bird turned too and was actually threatening the aircraft. Couldn't believe it was prepared to take on a large aircraft in its territory. I had to turn hard and climb to avoid it!

Les

Isn`t that what the Yorkshire Ripper did? :eek:

He should have wrung its neck when he was on the ground

I would of kicked the Fu ck out of that thing if that was me