A YouTuber tested gravity the hard way by spinning his motorized paraglider and plummeting 85 feet toward the ground at 48 mph. Spoiler alert: gravity won.
Anthony Vella was testing a BGD Luna 3 at Enchanted Rock State Park, northwest of Austin, when it suddenly collapsed from a height of 85 to 100 feet.
Happy to be alive but even happier to have captured such select content, Vella shared the footage of the accident on his YouTube channel. She also included the painful thirty minutes he lay on the ground, waiting for paramedics to arrive at her remote location.
Images of the accident reached X (formerly Twitter).
NEW: YouTuber breaks neck and back after falling 85 feet from motorized paraglider in Texas.
Anthony Vella was flying at about 50 mph when he fell from the sky.
Vella fell to the ground and called 911 while screaming in pain.
He was then rushed to the hospital. He suffered… pic.twitter.com/gofgiA7V3U
– Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 28, 2024
The full YouTube video posted Saturday begins with Vella lying in his hospital bed, receiving treatment for a broken neck, back, pelvis and a shattered right arm. He explained that the paragliding accident occurred because he overlooked a minor pension knot in his pre-flight checks.
Activating the brakes on a glider at full speed causes it to collapse, a phenomenon similarly induced by a snagged tension knot. Vella’s grand entrance to Earth was captured from three angles, and her screams upon landing served as an impromptu review of gravity’s harsh welcoming committee.
No doubt the cries of agony made many people smash the Like button on YouTube.
YouTuber Anthony Vella shortly after impact after falling 85 feet from his motorized paraglider. (Image via Twitter/@CollinRugg)
“Please help, my flying machine crashed…” Vella implored a 911 operator, no doubt thinking it was a prank call.
While waiting for help, Vella’s self-examination of her wounds also elicits some morbid laughter. “His arm is obviously deformed, so we’re not going to move it,” she says at one point.
The YouTuber breaks the news that he crashed his motorized paraglider to his wife
Finally, a good Samaritan arrived and helped Vella until medical professionals could reach her location. They also helped the YouTuber call his wife to tell her the news that she crashed her motorized paraglider and was seriously injured while she was creating content for the internet.
“The glider collapsed and my arm was broken… I’m going to be fine, my love, don’t worry,” Vella told his wife, Leandra. “What do you mean, don’t worry?” his exasperated wife groaned.
Vella records content for his YouTube channel directly from his hospital bed after crashing his motorized paraglider. (Image via YouTube / @AnthonyVella)
About 12 minutes after the accident, the good Samaritan who was with Vella saw the ambulance in the distance. The images jump to the arrival of the paramedics, and the passerby estimates a wait of 30 minutes.
When paramedics asked about Vella’s condition, Leandra arrived, panicked and rushed to her side. They splinted her arm amid her screams of pain and promised her morphine as she was lifted onto a stretcher.
Probably sensing that her husband was putting himself in unnecessary danger, wasting medical professionals’ time, Leandra heartily thanked the workers who helped him as the ambulance sped across the desert toward the hospital.
Vella, speaking from his hospital bed, said he had no hard feelings toward the paramotor and called it an excellent machine. She warned onlookers to meticulously inspect his glider three times before taking off.
In the video description, Leandra details that her husband will have to undergo multiple surgeries on his road to recovery. Feeling that her content creation paid a lot, Vella promised to document her medical journey for her YouTube subscribers.
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