Hanging Glider Equipped with Engine and Crashed – 82-Year-Old Injured

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An 82-year-old Austrian equipped his hang glider in Tyrol with an electric motor and tried to fly – he crashed from about five meters above sea level. The cause was unknown for the time being, reported the police in Tyrol. The accident therefore happened on Saturday in Telfs about ten kilometers south of the border with Bavaria at a landing place for hang gliders. Witnesses saw the disaster and alarmed the rescue. The man had been taken to the h…

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The man may have tried to roll his aircraft at the hangar plane landing site, which he had equipped with an electric motor on his own. He crashed out of an unknown cause from a height of about five meters. The 82-year-old was taken to a hospital in Innsbruck, the police informed.