Damn....this is one lucky girl..

[HAL Pilot]

Paraglider survives after soaring to 32,000 feet

Woman awakens encased in ice after going higher than Mount Everest

MSNBC News Services
Updated: 7:55 a.m. PT Feb 16, 2007

CANBERRA, Australia - A German paraglider was encased in ice and blacked out after being sucked into a tornado-like thunderstorm in Australia and carried to a height greater than Mount Everest. She survived......

.......The 2005 World Cup winner was lifted 32,612 feet (9,940 meters) above sea level by the storm near Manilla in New South Wales.....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17185299/?GT1=9033

 

[snake020]

Here's a recent one about hawks attacking a female paraglider in nearby New Zealand

http://www.stuff.co.nz/3949230a4560.html

 

[JBM]

Those people are lucky...paragliders are very unstable as is, but with those factors, its almost unbelievable

 

[Brett327]

As birds are agents of Satan, she had ovbiously angered the Dark Lord.

Brett

 

[MasterBates]

Odd how both birds, and birds biggest natural killer (besides aircraft, it seems), CATS are both agents of the Dark Lord...

 

[fc2spyguy]

As birds are agents of Satan, she had ovbiously angered the Dark Lord.

Brett

Curious, where do you find, or what makes you decide what are agents of Satan?

One time under canopy I had a hawk flying in formation with me. It was awesome, except I had to turn away after about 30 seconds.

 

[Brett327]

Curious, where do you find, or what makes you decide what are agents of Satan?

One time under canopy I had a hawk flying in formation with me. It was awesome, except I had to turn away after about 30 seconds.

The rule is, if it will facilitate humor, then they're in league with Lucifer. Generally birds (specifically Crows and Ravens), also Jackals and Hyenae, and many arthropods.

Brett

 

[MasterBates]

Spy,

In slower aircraft, birds can cause massive airframe damage, and FOD engines out. I lost an engine by taking a seagull down the left intake after it hit and broke my windshield and took off my left mirror in a 60B..

IN faster aircraft, it can cause loss of the aircraft just by damaging the airframe. Can KILL aircrew if you take one thru the canpopy.

Birds SUCK!

 

[BlackDog421]

Are sharks servants of Satan?

 

[MasterBates]

No, Netpune..

 

[BigIron]

I guess that sets the altitude record for paragliding then.

 

[BlackDog421]

No, Netpune..

That would mean seahorses and algae also serve Satan. I just don't know how I feel about that.

Oh.. you mean they are servants of Neptune. My bad... I thought you meant Neptune is a servant of Satan.

 

[raptor10]

So Bears, Birds, and thunderstorms can smell a womans menstruation‽

 

[BlackDog421]

Thunderstorms have an acute sense of smell.

 

[thull]

so you're at 30,000 feet, and you wake up in your paraglider and you're encased in ice flying around, and you're like "damn, this sucks."