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> He lost control of the craft and crashed into a swimming pool at a coastal resort, striking a young woman who was injured on impact. not cool

toomuchtodo 1y ago
Some grace is needed, as a medical event was the root cause. edit: unexpected unconsciousness is not a medical event?
- RamblingCTO 1y ago
  all we know is that we became unconscious, right?
  - shadowgovt 1y ago
    As generally people don't just nod off flying a paraglider, a medical event is extremely likely even if it has not been officially determined.
    - aaroninsf 1y ago
      They might however "nod off" in consequence of losing control during risk-taking activities and being subjected to high Gs. Whether "medical event" was prior to or resulted from risk-taking adventure, and hence culpability, will await forensics I imagine. If those are possible. That determination aside however, risk-taking that puts others at risk (e.g., flying over other people) is morally and in many jurisdictions legally prohibited for obvious reasons.
      - hotpocket777 1y ago
        Do you mean activities like driving a car?
      - shadowgovt 1y ago
        I don't think that's true. I see powered paragliders out at the beach all the time, and to my knowledge that was perfectly legal as long as you are licensed properly. I suspect that the story here is that until things went wrong nobody expected that this was a risk-taking activity in the first place (any more so than paragliding in general is). Do we have reason to believe he was doing it unsafely before disaster struck and he lost control?
jppj 1y ago
Not sure the details but it seems the article was edited > then lost control of his paraglider, crashing into a hotel pool and lightly injuring a young female employee. Still not great, but it seems like a rush of water knocking over someone, not quite striking which sounds like it would be life threatening.

toomuchtodo 1y ago

Some grace is needed, as a medical event was the root cause. edit: unexpected unconsciousness is not a medical event?

RamblingCTO 1y ago
all we know is that we became unconscious, right?
- shadowgovt 1y ago
  As generally people don't just nod off flying a paraglider, a medical event is extremely likely even if it has not been officially determined.
  - aaroninsf 1y ago
    They might however "nod off" in consequence of losing control during risk-taking activities and being subjected to high Gs. Whether "medical event" was prior to or resulted from risk-taking adventure, and hence culpability, will await forensics I imagine. If those are possible. That determination aside however, risk-taking that puts others at risk (e.g., flying over other people) is morally and in many jurisdictions legally prohibited for obvious reasons.
    - hotpocket777 1y ago
      Do you mean activities like driving a car?
    - shadowgovt 1y ago
      I don't think that's true. I see powered paragliders out at the beach all the time, and to my knowledge that was perfectly legal as long as you are licensed properly. I suspect that the story here is that until things went wrong nobody expected that this was a risk-taking activity in the first place (any more so than paragliding in general is). Do we have reason to believe he was doing it unsafely before disaster struck and he lost control?

jppj 1y ago

Not sure the details but it seems the article was edited > then lost control of his paraglider, crashing into a hotel pool and lightly injuring a young female employee. Still not great, but it seems like a rush of water knocking over someone, not quite striking which sounds like it would be life threatening.