On Sunday, September 20, 2020 at 12:25:54 PM UTC-7, Semantics Michael wrote:
On Saturday, September 19, 2020 at 9:32:21 AM UTC-5, Soartech wrote:
Please don't post cryptic links that hide FAKEBOOK.
Here is the information in a respected website: https://xcmag.com/news/kiwi-johnston...-under-a-tree/

https://rb.gy/pn6s8d

Boggs

What gives with the fragile tempers on RAS? You make it sound like the poster conspired to infect the entire digital universe. While I never will understand the attraction for Facebook (Could there be a worse platform to navigate?), many of us had been closely following the missing paraglider pilot and the tremendous efforts to locate him. You did no wrong by offering up an alternative URL (albeit w/less complete info), but your transparent campaign to slam Facebook was an opportunity you could easily have passed up. Is this how you engage guests in your living room?

Additional information on the accident is now available. The Eureka County Sheriff issued this notice:

The Sheriff’s Office determined his cause of death as multiple blunt force trauma due to a high-elevation fall.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/...ficials%20said.
The Sheriff, Jesse Watts, refused to give any further details, citing a request by Johnston's family. However, members of the search team that recovered his body said Johnston did not deploy his emergency reserve chute. Barring suicide, he must have become incapacitated somehow. Hypoxia is high on the list, as it is doubtful they have supplemental oxygen.

These paragliders are notoriously unstable, as can be seen in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUc-MJngQyg
This video has some pretty disturbing sequences at 1:00 and 1:30 of the wings collapsing with the pilots entangled. An attempted emergency chute deployment is at 23:16.