{"id":602792,"date":"2026-05-25T10:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602792\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:04:11","slug":"austria-news-horror-as-womans-paraglider-sliced-in-the-air-by-small-plane-sending-her-plummeting-to-earth-in-shocking-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602792\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria news: Horror as woman’s paraglider sliced in the air by small plane sending her plummeting to Earth in shocking video"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman’s paraglider was sliced by a small plane in a horror incident in Austria. <\/p>\n

The 44-year-old woman, identified only as Sabrina, was soaring over the Schmittenhohe mountain when the small plane struck her equipment.<\/p>\n

Remarkable footage shows the aircraft’s wing cutting straight through her canopy, which was the sole barrier preventing a fatal fall.<\/p>\n

The touring plane came within mere feet of hitting Sabrina directly, instead tearing through her parachute just above her head.<\/p>\n

Her canopy was torn completely apart by the impact.<\/p>\n

The shredded material whipped around her as she fought to access her backup parachute.<\/p>\n

Sabrina managed to free herself from the tangled wreckage and successfully activated her reserve chute while hurtling towards the ground.<\/p>\n

Her rapid response almost certainly averted death.<\/p>\n

\"Plane<\/p>\n

The remarkable video shows the aircraft’s wing cutting straight through her canopy<\/p>\n

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INSTAGRAM\/SAB_THI<\/p>\n

Writing on social media shortly after the ordeal, Sabrina said: “I actually still can’t believe that I’m sitting here typing this and that, aside from a few nasty bruises and some general contusions, absolutely nothing happened.”<\/p>\n

A police helicopter retrieved her and took her to a nearby airport.<\/p>\n

The aircraft which snagged her went on to land without incident at Zell am See Airport, officials said.<\/p>\n

The pilot, aged 28, has defended his actions, insisting that it was simply not possible to avoid the paraglider. <\/p>\n

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The near-fatal collision comes after a deadly paragliding tragedy in Spain several months prior.<\/p>\n

Cristina Colturi had been flying tandem with a qualified instructor when they crashed into rocks close to La Enramada beach in Costa Adeje, Tenerife.<\/p>\n

Paramedics arrived to find the woman suffering cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n

Hospital staff were unable to save her, and she succumbed to her injuries two days following the accident.<\/p>\n

\"Sabrina<\/p>\n

The shredded material whipped around her as she fought to access her backup parachute<\/p>\n

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INSTAGRAM\/SAB_THI<\/p>\n

The trip had been a Christmas present from her partner.<\/p>\n

Paragliding leads the way as the most dangerous airborne sport, with 10.8 injuries reported per 1,000 participants, studies have shown. <\/p>\n

Fatalities are also not uncommon, with 1.4 deaths reported for every 100,000 flights taken. <\/p>\n

The vast majority of accidents – between 80 and 90 per cent – occur during take-off and landing, with the most common injuries occurring in the legs and ankles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman’s paraglider was sliced by a small plane in a horror incident in Austria. The 44-year-old woman,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[591,49,50,2331,51,47,52,48,231],"class_list":["post-602792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-europe","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sgg","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602792","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=602792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}