FILE – Ed R. Levin County Park in Milpitas, Calif., is a popular spot for hang gliding and paragliding.
Yelp / Namrata K.A man died and a woman was seriously injured on Monday in a hang gliding accident at a San Francisco Bay Area Park, officials said.
The incident occurred at about noon at Ed R. Levin County Park in Milpitas when two people were tandem hang gliding and the glider crashed into a hillside, the Milpitas Fire Department said.
The man died on the scene and the woman was air lifted to a trauma center, the fire department said.
“The terrain is very rugged,” Galahad Zamora, battalion chief for the Milpitas Fire Department, told KTVU. “It’s a single lane road in order to get up to that location. It provided some challenges for our equipment and personnel to get up there and make patient contact.”
Ed R. Levin County Park is a popular spot for hang gliding in the San Francisco Bay Area and it’s one of five local sites manages by the Wings of Rogallo Northern California Hang Glider Association. The location is open to hang glider pilots of all levels. There are several requirements to hang glide at the park including membership with the US Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association and being under the guidance of an instructor or have the appropriate pilot rating and experience.
