After power fails, is it PG or still PPG?
PPG. A paraglider with an anvil on it.
10x the fatality rate
I mostly look for broken backs, head injuries (despite helmets), internal injuries and broken femurs (the strongest bone in the human body).
Because I have passed over so many other significant injuries - multiple fractures, lower leg and forearm, ankle, wrist, etc. - I haven't come to a firm number.
It is near 10x, however. More or less.
With fatalities, you can be pretty sure it was a paraglider who got killed because the authorities usually recover the body.
But many lesser injuries have been staged with bicycles, cars, rock climbing and tree falls for insurance purposes, so it becomes more difficult.
Compounding this is the European "right to privacy" laws which in recent years result in less information on injuries and identity being released from the most notorious areas.
I am confident, however, that paragliding without question has become the bloodiest aerial sport in history, as well as the worst ever in absolute terms of rescue,medical costs and economic losses of future earnings among college-trained professionals.
Nothing else comes remotely close.
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