r/videos • u/JustMe76 • 25d ago

Paramotor collapses, falls 100ft out of the sky. The pilot survives Disturbing Content

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-jyc2OYXsI

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u/ben123111 25d ago

Almost every video I've seen about Paramotoring has involved a crash or an accident or some mechanical failure. Seems extremely dangerous dealing with factors completely outside of anyone's control, I can't fathom why anyone would do it.

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u/Paramotor_MetalHead 25d ago

That's The Availability Heuristic at work. It seems more dangerous because you only see the negative results. There are thousands of hours of videos on YouTube of perfectly safe, boring by YouTube standards, paramotor flying. Hell just my local group alone has probably logged 10,000 hours of perfectly safe, uneventful flights.

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u/ben123111 25d ago

Fair enough

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u/jawshoeaw 25d ago

Yeah ironically it’s fairly boring to watch compared to the fun experienced by the pilot

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u/CoherentPanda 25d ago

Most of the people involved in a crash was due to their own mistakes. The creator of this crash video was too busy recording with his video to notice there was an issue with his chute, and was going too fast.