How does this work?

[Thomas Van de Velde]

For my French friends: How exactly does one end up dangling with a parachute in a tree for three days after a bad landing attempt? It seems like the pilot has also "lost" his memory.

http://www.rtl.fr/actualites/info/insolite/article/pilote-de-planeur-retrouve-vivant-j-ai-fait-une-erreur-d-interpretation-de-la-meteo-7771843411

[Del Copeland]

At 04:09 13 May 2014, Thomas Van de Velde wrote:
>For my French friends: How exactly does one end up dangling
with a
>parachute in a tree for three days after a bad landing attempt? It
seems
>like the pilot has also "lost" his memory.
>
>http://www.rtl.fr/actualites/info/insolite/article/pilote-de-planeur-
retrouve-vivant-j-ai-fait-une-erreur-d-interpretation-de-la-meteo-
7771843411
>

Glider may have had a ballistic parachute system fitted? Doesn't
sound as if he bailed out.

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The "parachute" story is simply untrue, another example of bad reporting. He crashed while landing out in a desert, inhospitable mountain valley. No cell phone contact, no ELT. Being badly hurt (thorax and vertebrae), he survived three days on the crash site thanks to his sleeping bag and other kit he had in the glider, before attracting the attention of a farmer who was passing by in his jeep. Information given by a fellow club member on the French forum.