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Mr Berry, of Queenstown, told the Otago Daily Times he was
performing aerobatics on a recreational flight in his Swift glider when the
accident happened about 2.30pm. He was diving down to build up speed, having
earlier been as high as 5500ft, when the glider began to buck and shake.


Moments later there was a “catastrophic structural failure” and the wings ripped
clean off the glider’s cockpit cage. Mr Berry was sent plummeting down towards
the mountain below, still dangling half in and half out of the cage and
desperately reaching to find the lever that would deploy his emergency reserve
parachute, he said.

Thanks to graeme henderson.