Paraglider cheats death after parachute fails to open in Organya, Spain

Paraglider cheats death after parachute fails to open in Organya, Spain
This is the terrifying moment a paraglider began falling to the ground when his lines got tangled in high winds, before managing to open his rescue shoot just 'one second' before it became too late to survive.Show more

Kevin Philipp was paragliding in Organya, Spain, doing 'acro' - a freestyle discipline of paragliding that involves performing gravity-defying manoeuvres.
However, the Swiss daredevil got into trouble when he appeared to crash into his canopy (or wing) while pulling off a trick, causing him to get tangled in the cables
To make matters worse, when he tried to release his first parachute, it failed to deploy because of the tangled lines - sending him plummeting towards the rapidly approaching ground.

Philipp posted footage - shot from a 360-degree camera on his helmet - of his near-death experience to YouTube on Monday, showing how the incident unfolded from a vantage point just above his head.
A separate video, shot from the ground, also showed just how quickly he was plummeting out of the sky - and his frantic scramble to save himself.

In the description of the video, he wrote on YouTube that his problems began when he encountered 'strong turbulence' while attempting an Acro paragliding trick.

'Acro paragliding trick in strong turbulence went wrong. Break line got stuck. Falling into the lines and wing made the rescue parachute throw quite hard,' Philipp said.
Footage from his helmet camera showed as he was performing a trick, Philipp lost control and crashed into his glider's canopy.

As he did so, the cables attaching him to the paraglider became tangled around him and the canopy, causing the wing to crumple and trail behind him like a windsock - as he began to accelerate towards the arid ground below.

Reacting to the danger, Philipp deployed his rescue parachute to begin his descent. However, the footage shows that his parachute failed to unfurl, instead just trailing above alongside the tangled wing.
With the ground getting closer and closer, the paraglider had to think fast. Despite the flailing cables, he was able to reach for his back-up parachute.

The footage shows him pull the orange parachute away from his body and rip it open, releasing it in the nick of time for it to open above him - moments before crashing he would have crashed into the ground.

Instead, as the ground rises to meet him and his wing and initial parachute trail in a tangle above him, the footage shows him landing at speed - but safely - in a bush.

'The falling speed increased a lot due to the twisting wing,' Philipp wrote.

'Very last chance was to manually open the rescue package. Estimated time left about 1 second. This was not the day to die! Thanks!'