{"id":25236,"date":"2016-07-07T09:47:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=25236"},"modified":"2016-07-07T09:47:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:47:38","slug":"hang-glider-accident-mid-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/hang-glider-accident-mid-air\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Terrifying Footage Shows A Hangglider Collapsing During Mid-Flight Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hangglider Jon Gjerde&#8217;s run at the Ekstremsportveko show in Voss, Norway, took a harrowing turn last Tuesday when Gjerde&#8217;s glider gave out under extreme G-forces.<\/p>\n<p>All seemed well as Gjerde attempted an intense spinning dive, which he then turned into a loop, but as he tried to go into a second loop, his glider collapsed and began to spiral towards the lake below.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Gjerde was able to pull his emergency chute which successfully deployed despite the glider&#8217;s spiral.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the tense moments in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/173368686\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Another view of from the ground shows exactly the moment when things went wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/173252167\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Luckily\u00a0Gjerde was able to make it to safety, sustaining only minor injuries.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Like<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u272a<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Share\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">\u272a <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Be\u00a0Awesome<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (7.4.18) simplesharebuttons.com --><div id=\"ssba-classic-2\" class=\"ssba ssbp-wrap left ssbp--theme-1\"><div style=\"text-align:left\"><span class=\"ssba-share-text\">Like it? Share it!<\/span><br\/><a data-site=\"\" class=\"ssba_facebook_share\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25236\"  target=\"_blank\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-share-buttons-adder\/buttons\/simple\/facebook.png\" style=\"width: 50px;\" title=\"Facebook\" class=\"ssba ssba-img\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><div title=\"Facebook\" class=\"ssbp-text\">Facebook<\/div><\/a><a data-site=\"pinterest-featured\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/bookmarklet\/?is_video=false&url=https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25236&media=https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/hang-glider.png&description=VIDEO | Terrifying Footage Shows A Hangglider Collapsing During Mid-Flight Dive\" class=\"ssba_pinterest_share ssba_share_link\"  target=&quot;_blank&quot; ><img src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-share-buttons-adder\/buttons\/simple\/pinterest.png\" style=\"width: 50px;\" title=\"Pinterest\" class=\"ssba ssba-img\" alt=\"Pin on Pinterest\" \/><div title=\"Pinterest\" class=\"ssbp-text\">Pinterest<\/div><\/a><a data-site=\"reddit\" class=\"ssba_reddit_share\" href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25236&amp;title=VIDEO | Terrifying Footage Shows A Hangglider Collapsing During Mid-Flight Dive\"  target=&quot;_blank&quot; ><img src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-share-buttons-adder\/buttons\/simple\/reddit.png\" style=\"width: 50px;\" title=\"Reddit\" class=\"ssba ssba-img\" alt=\"Share on Reddit\" \/><div title=\"Reddit\" class=\"ssbp-text\">Reddit<\/div><\/a><a data-site=\"\" class=\"ssba_twitter_share\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25236&amp;text=VIDEO%20%7C%20Terrifying%20Footage%20Shows%20A%20Hangglider%20Collapsing%20During%20Mid-Flight%20Dive%20\"  target=&quot;_blank&quot; ><img src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-share-buttons-adder\/buttons\/simple\/twitter.png\" style=\"width: 50px;\" title=\"Twitter\" class=\"ssba ssba-img\" alt=\"Tweet about this on Twitter\" \/><div title=\"Twitter\" class=\"ssbp-text\">Twitter<\/div><\/a><a data-site=\"\" class=\"ssba_google_share\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25236\"  target=&quot;_blank&quot; ><img src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/simple-share-buttons-adder\/buttons\/simple\/google.png\" style=\"width: 50px;\" title=\"Google+\" class=\"ssba ssba-img\" alt=\"Share on Google+\" \/><div title=\"Google+\" class=\"ssbp-text\">Google+<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 400px;\">\n<div style=\"float: left;\"><b>Like &amp; Follow Us On Facebook!<\/b><\/div>\n<div id=\"social_target\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theofficialawesomejelly\" data-layout=\"button_count\" data-action=\"like\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-share=\"false\"><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11222\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/awesomejelly5-300x300.png\" alt=\"jelly1\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/awesomejelly5-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/awesomejelly5-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/awesomejelly5-75x75.png 75w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/awesomejelly5.png 569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hangglider Jon Gjerde&#8217;s run at the Ekstremsportveko show in Voss, Norway, took a harrowing turn last Tuesday when Gjerde&#8217;s glider gave out under extreme G-forces. All seemed well as Gjerde attempted an intense spinning dive, which he then turned into a loop, but as he tried to go into a second loop, his glider collapsed and began to spiral towards the lake below. Fortunately, Gjerde was able to pull his emergency chute which successfully deployed despite the glider&#8217;s spiral. Check out the tense moments in the video below. &nbsp; Another view of from the ground shows exactly the moment <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41,27],"tags":[948,4721,5005,83,2700,130],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25238,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25236\/revisions\/25238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25236"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}