{"id":470449,"date":"2026-03-11T23:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470449\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:12:08","slug":"raf-pilots-death-while-paragliding-at-dinorwig-quarry-was-accidental-inquest-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470449\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF pilot\u2019s death while paragliding at Dinorwig Quarry was accidental, inquest rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The inquest was told Flt Lt Corser had gone with a friend to the slopes of Elidir Fawr near Llanberis early that morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both were intending to carry out a form of paragliding known as &#8220;speed flying&#8221;, which involves higher speeds of up to 70 km\/h (43 mph) and flying much closer to the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His colleague launched first and successfully completed a four-minute flight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Flt Lt Corser decided to launch from another part of the mountain and set off alone, the inquest heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was seen soon afterwards by two climbers, flying over a disused quarry before heading out of sight through a V-shaped gap in the rock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the climbers, Paul Hockin, said in a statement: &#8220;The paraglider was travelling quickly, swaying from side to side, and didn&#8217;t seem to be fully under control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An investigation by the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association said it was difficult to determine how Flt Lt Corser lost control of his paraglider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, although he was experienced and familiar with the flight path, the report noted that any mistake in the confined area of the quarry would have been impossible to recover from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The inquest was told Flt Lt Corser had gone with a friend to the slopes of Elidir Fawr&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-470449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}