{"id":352916,"date":"2026-06-18T19:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=352916"},"modified":"2026-06-18T19:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:23:46","slug":"british-paraglider-dies-after-getting-tangled-in-power-lines-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/british-paraglider-dies-after-getting-tangled-in-power-lines-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"British paraglider dies after \u2018getting tangled in power lines\u2019 | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Emergency services were called to the scene on Wednesday afternoon (Picture: Bombers)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A British paraglider has died in Spain after he reportedly became tangled in power lines.<\/p>\n

The 63-year-old, who has not been publicly identified, was flying over Palau de Noguera in Lleida, Catalonia, on Wednesday afternoon when the accident took place.<\/p>\n

Local firefighting teams, several fire engines and helicopters were called to the scene at around 1.20pm local time (12.20pm GMT) but couldn’t save the person.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson from the regional government said: \u2018The Generalitat\u2019s firefighters received a call at 1.20pm yesterday a couple of paragliding accident within the Palau de Noguera area, within the municipality of Tremp.<\/p>\n

\u2018Immediately, three fire crews from the Tremp and Sort fire stations were activated. They searched the world, situated the victim seriously injured, and provided initial medical attention until the 2 crews from the Emergency Medical Service (SEM) arrived.<\/p>\n

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The 63-year-old\u2019s death is being treated as an accident (Picture: Bombers)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u2018The regional Mossos d\u2019Esquadra police were also mobilised.\u2019<\/p>\n

Police at the moment are investigating the circumstances across the death, which is being treated as an accident, sources claim.<\/p>\n

Palau de Noguera, on the foothills of the Pyrenees mountain range, is usually used as a base camp for \u00c0ger \u2013 a village of just 637 inhabitants, popular with paragliders.<\/p>\n

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The accident took place within the foothills of the Pyrenees (Picture: Shutterstock \/ Ioana Catalina E)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last month, a paraglider narrowly escaped death after a plane ripped through her parachute above the Austrian Alps.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old paraglider, Sabrina, took off from Schmittenhohe mountain and was flying towards Piesendorf when the crash happened at around 1.15pm on May 23 \u2013 the day she was celebrating her birthday.<\/p>\n

The Cessna aircraft which collided along with her parachute, meanwhile, had taken off from Zell am See Airport and was carrying out an alpine sightseeing tour when disaster struck.<\/p>\n

The propeller reportedly caused severe damage to the paraglider cover, forcing Sabrina to deploy the reserve parachute.<\/p>\n

Emergency crews described it as extremely fortunate that no one suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n

The paraglider later wrote on Instagram: \u2018Pleased birthday to me. The day a Cessna 172 takes you out of the sky when you\u2019re paragliding\u2026<\/p>\n

She added: \u2018I actually still can\u2019t consider that I\u2019m sitting here typing this and that, other than a number of nasty bruises and a few general contusions, absolutely nothing happened.\u2019<\/p>\n

Sabrina sought medical treatment for minor injuries, with emergency personnel declaring it a \u2018miracle\u2019 she didn\u2019t suffer a worse fate.<\/p>\n

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Emergency services were called to the scene on Wednesday afternoon (Picture: Bombers) A British paraglider has died in Spain after he reportedly became tangled in power lines. The 63-year-old, who has not been publicly identified, was flying over Palau de Noguera in Lleida, Catalonia, on Wednesday afternoon when the accident took place. Local firefighting teams, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":352917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20691],"tags":[2869,5319,24989,395,34308,3228,52760,813],"class_list":["post-352916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-british","tag-dies","tag-lines","tag-news","tag-paraglider","tag-power","tag-tangled","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352919,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352916\/revisions\/352919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}