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Paraglider, 60, Taken To Hospital After Plunging Down Victoria Cliff

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 08 May, 2015 01:39 PM
    VICTORIA — A paraglider survived a brush with death Thursday when he plummeted down a cliff in Victoria.
     
    Victoria Fire Department Batallion Chief Bob Jones says the 60-year-old man was flying with a group when he was struck by a down draft at about 8 p.m.
     
    Witnesses say the man disappeared mid-glide below the top of the rock face located west of Clover Point.
     
    Jones says the man fell into a bank, but other paragliders moved him onto a nearby beach and were assisting him when first responders arrived.
     
    He says the man was complaining of back pain and might have suffered a spinal injury.
     
    Jones says paramedics placed the man in a clamshell stretcher and he was taken to hospital in stable condition. (CFAX)

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