Tuesday Tragedy

[Faoro_Ron]

Sad story. Anyone know who this happened to?

A man died this afternoon in a paragliding crash near Piru, authorities reported.

The Ventura County Fire Department got a report of a downed paraglider shortly before 2:30 p.m., said Steve Swindle, a department spokesman. Some farmworkers witnessed the crash and led crews to the crash site, which was near the river bottom off the end of Powell Road, he said.

The yet-unidentified man, who was in a motorized paraglider, appeared to be in his mid-20s, Swindle said. Further details, such as a possible cause of the crash, were not available.


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Paraglider Dies In Crash Between Fillmore And Piru
KVTA News Tuesday November 20, 2012
A man died in the crash of a paraglider into the Santa Clara riverbed between Fillmore and Piru Tuesday afternoon. Ventura County Fire Department spokesman Steve Swindle told KVTA News that the incident was reported around 2:30 PM by some workers in a nearby orchard who witnessed it. Ventura County firefighters responded and pronounced the man dead at the scene. Swindle says it's believed the man is in his mid 20's. He was flying a motorized paraglider which is a rectangular shaped parachute that looks like a wing attached to a seat and motorized fan that provides thrust so it can stay aloft. The Ventura County Sheriff's Department and Medical Examiner's Office will investigate what happened.