DUNLAP, Calif. (KFSN) -- Investigators are trying to figure out how a hang glider lost control of his aircraft and smashed into a rock face and died. The Fresno County Sheriff's Office said a ...

A two-time Brazilian hang-gliding champion has died in a shocking freak accident over Rio on Thursday. Philip Eric Haegler collided midair with a paraglider, slammed into a building, was knocked ...

A champion hang glider was killed in a freak accident after colliding with a paraglider in midair over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday. Two-time Brazilian hang-gliding champion Philip Eric Haegler, ...

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Funeral services will be Saturday for Richard James Westmoreland, one of two experienced hang glider pilots who died in an accident at the Lookout Mountain Flight Park last Tuesday. The craft was not ...

Well-known paraglider Jean-Jacques Wallis was killed in an accident on Lion’s Head, Cape Town, on Tuesday. The 35-year-old had more than two decades of experience in a range of air sports, including ...