Paraglider who jumped from 150ft building gets stuck in tree

This is the dramatic moment a paraglider who jumped from more than 150ft got tangled in a tree.

The unnamed man, aged in his 40s, is believed to have jumped from the top of a building along Manor Road in Bournemouth.

But his glider became stuck in the branches of a treetop on his way down, leaving him in need of urgent assistance.

Pictures show him hanging from the tree some 30ft above the ground on Friday.

Luckily, residents spotted the man and raised the alarm with emergency services.

Tony Higgins, who lives in a neighbouring flat, said: ‘I was coming home at about 6.30pm and I saw fire engines and police cars on the way up to my drive.

‘It is so unusual to see any emergency services here that I went straight to a neighbour to find out what was happening.

‘That’s when I found out it was a paraglider stuck in the tree and I went to have a look.

‘I think he must have jumped off the top of our building and the parachute only started to open halfway down.

‘He’s lucky the tree was there. It could have ended very differently if he was just feet away from where he fell.

‘It took them about an hour to get him down and another 15 minutes to get his parachute out of the tree.

‘He didn’t seem hurt at all which is very lucky. Hopefully it teaches him a lesson not to do it again.’

Crews from the police, fire service and an ambulance attended the scene, using an aerial ladder to get close enough to safely cut the ropes before bringing him back to the ground.

It took the rescue team another 15 minutes to successfully untangle the ropes and wires of the paraglider.

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