Sabrina is an Austrian paraglider with 17,000 followers on Instagram and a lot, a lot of luck. Last Saturday, while paragliding in an area designated for flights in the Alps, a Cessna 172 plane ran over her paraglider — she was just meters away from the propeller hitting her body — and destroyed it. Sabrina was at the mercy of gravity and the effectiveness of her emergency parachute, which worked.
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The jumper shared the video of the accident on her social media, causing a great impression. She congratulated herself on her “new birthday” and thanked “being able to tell it” with just some “pretty bad bruises and contusions” on her body as a result of the incident.
Despite her luck — that’s what social media is like — Sabrina was criticized for the accident, for which some users blamed her. “To put it in my words: ‘Dude, go to hell’,” she replied, along with a smiling emoji, before giving explanations. “I was not in any place where I shouldn’t be. The plane, as a powered aircraft, had the obligation to move aside. The plane’s pilot also landed safe and sound. Yes, I know who he was. And everything will follow the corresponding legal course, completely officially and without drama.”
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The jumper added that the flight area where she had the accident “is a flight zone where paragliders, gliders, and small planes coincide. There are rules, and yet accidents happen.”
Sabrina acknowledged, in any case, that she was flying without FLARM, the electronic collision avoidance system used in these flight zones. About whether the accident would have happened if she had used FLARM, she answered: I don’t know. It also doesn’t work with 100% reliability, although my next variometer will be one WITH FLARM: “I don’t know. It also doesn’t work with 100% reliability.” “Although my next variometer will be one with FLARM,” she admitted.
