Lost Hong Kong paraglider, 67, rescued after making emergency landing in heavy fog and spending night in woods
- Man, surnamed Chung, attempts to fly from Ma On Shan to Sai Kung but heavy fog forced him to land
- ‘I only realised I was in big trouble after I reached the ground,’ he says
Hong Kong firefighters have rescued a 67-year-old paraglider who was forced to make an emergency landing in heavy fog and spent the night lost in woods.
The man, surnamed Chung, had planned to fly from the Ngong Ping Campsite in Ma On Shan to Sai Kung on Friday afternoon but was left stranded after landing without any mobile phone service.
“I shouldn’t have flown my paraglider,” he told a local television station on Saturday. “I realised there was very heavy fog after I took off and I could not see anything at all. But I could not return to where I took off.
“It was very foggy. I could not see anything in the sky, but I saw a grass opening down below, so I made an emergency landing. I only realised that I was in big trouble after I reached the ground.”
Police said they received a report about a 67-year-old man who had gone paragliding at 5.30pm on Friday and then encountered fog and made an emergency landing in the woods.
