Splash landing! Moment paraglider faceplants in a muddy paddy field when take-off goes wrong in Thailand
This is the moment a pilot made a splash as he crashed his motorised paraglider into a paddy field in a bungled take-off.
Footage shows the flying enthusiast make a running start across a concrete runway in Nakhon Pathom province, Thailand.With a roaring propeller strapped to his back, the paraglider charges forwards, the parachute rising above him and catching the air.
A flying enthusiast's attempt to take to the air using a motorised paraglider ended almost quickly as it began in Nakhon Pathom province, Thailand
The embarrassed paraglider laughed at himself as he was helped back onto his feet having crashed into a boggy paddy field moments after his feet left the ground
But as the paraglider reaches the edge of the runway, he disappears over a grassy knoll.
A splatting sound follows and a splash of water rises through the air as the man thuds into a boggy paddy field.
The sound of the paraglider's propeller stops and the parachute sinks slowly to the ground - in an accident that was reportedly due to a gear failure.
The cameraman and another person rush to find the pilot slumped face down in the mud.
As they pull him upright the embarrassed pilot - his face and front body covered in mud - starts to laugh and appears unhurt.
His friends burst out laughing at his hilarious appearance.
The paraglider made a confident start, launching himself off the runway, his propeller roaring and his parachute catching the air and floating above his head
With some help, the paraglider gets back to his feet, and the glider is extricated from its boggy resting place.
The painful failure to ascend was captured on December 23 by the hapless paraglider's friend Tum Banlane.
Tum said: 'I couldn't stop laughing when he fell straight down! He looked serious while taking off.'
Another take-off fail was captured in South Korea, when an unlucky paraglider found himself getting acquainted with a tree almost immediately after launching from a cliff.
Mark Huneycutt shared video of his July 2019 crash which also occurred immediately after take-off.
While he is stuck in the tree, Huneycutt's girlfriend - Alayna Dickerson - can be heard asking if he is OK.
'No I'm good but man I'm s**t at paragliding,' he says while laughing.
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