A man died and a woman was seriously injured on Monday in a hang gliding accident at a San Francisco Bay Area Park, officials said.
FILE - Ed R. Levin County Park in Milpitas, Calif., is a popular spot for hang gliding and paragliding.A man died and a woman was seriously injured on Monday in a hang gliding accident at a San Francisco Bay Area Park, officialsThe incident occurred at about noon at Ed R. Levin County Park in Milpitas when two people were tandem hang gliding and the glider crashed into a hillside, the Milpitas Fire Department said.
The pair took off from the 1750 launch site, the highest launch point at the park, the fire department said in a news release."The terrain is very rugged," Galahad Zamora, battalion chief for the Milpitas Fire Department, told KTVU."It's a single lane road in order to get up to that location. It provided some challenges for our equipment and personnel to get up there and make patient contact.
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