Heart-stopping footage captured the moment a plane smashed through a paraglider’s canopy midair, sending a woman spiraling through the sky screaming before she miraculously landed safely on the ground.
The paraglider, a 44-year-old woman named Sabrina, posted footage of her flying near the scenic Schmittenhöhe mountain in northern Austria Saturday afternoon when a small sightseeing plane suddenly plows right through her rig — just feet above her head.
She screams as she starts to spin out of control, desperately trying to deploy her emergency parachute, harrowing footage shows. The canopy appears to have been split in half after it was struck.
She was somehow able to get untangled and depoloy the emergency chute as she plummeted towards Earth.
Her camera captured her finally landing hard with a loud grunt.
🚨 WATCH: A paraglider gets hit by a Cessna 172 near the Austrian town of Zell am See.
The paraglider was able to pull her rescue parachute and land safely shortly after the incident on Saturday.
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The experienced paraglider was later picked up by a police helicopter and taken to a local airport, according to Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung.
“I actually still can’t believe that I’m sitting here typing this—and that, aside from a few nasty bruises and some general contusions, absolutely nothing happened,” Sabrina posted in German on her Instagram.
The sightseeing plane, piloted by a 28-year-old man, was able to land safely at Zell am See Airport, officials said.
He claimed that there was no way he could have avoided the paraglider.
