When she explains the situation, it seems almost trivial. "That's part of the risk," says Maud Perrin quietly. The risks: it's ending up tangled in your sail and in free fall above a lake several hundred meters high. This is what the French paragliding aerobatic champion experienced in October 2021 in the Turkish sky. The images filmed with his camera are striking and send shivers down your spine. We see the young paraglider trying to regain control of her glider without success and falling inexorably. "That's what the emergency parachute is for," she explains. Taking control of the flight again means opening that famous emergency parachute, created for this type of situation… But when it doesn't open… She recognizes that this had never happened to her before.“I have already activated the emergency parachute. The first had always opened. There, you say to yourself: oh well, it's the second, it's the last! »
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After her unsuccessful attempt to open the first parachute because she is too tangled in the wires of the paraglider, Maud narrowly manages to open the second parachute.
The speed stabilizes and in a few seconds, the champion finds herself in the waters of the lake, safe and sound.
