The pilot of a hang glider who crashed into the Pacific Ocean off of the coast of Pacifica Sunday afternoon has been identified by the San Mateo County coroner's office as 44-year-old San Francisco ...

A champion hang glider was killed in a freak accident after colliding with a paraglider mid-air over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday. The two-time Brazilian hang-gliding champion Philip Eric Haegler, ...

NEWPORT BEACH — With aircraft made of little more than bamboo and plastic sheets, a ragtag group of aerial adventurers threw themselves off a hilltop here on May 23, 1971, launching what became known ...

A first-time hang glider lived to tell a harrowing story about how an instructor in Switzerland forgot to attach his safety harness to the glider before leaping off a cliff side. What followed was a ...

DRAPER, Utah — A recreator was taken to the hospital with serious injuries after a hang gliding accident at a remote area in the Salt Lake County Flight Park Thursday evening. At 5:53 p.m., crews ...

A man's first time hang gliding in Switzerland turned into a terrifying ordeal after he realized he hadn't been strapped in before take off. Chris Gursky was on the first day of a vacation to ...

Chris Gursky stood on a hilltop last month in Switzerland, with one hand holding on to his pilot and the other holding on to a hang glider, gearing up for an adventure. The pilot asked Gursky whether ...