Man flown to hospital after powered paraglider crash in northwestern Alberta

CBC News

· Posted: May 25, 2025 2:41 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

Federal proscription investigators were sent to northwestern Alberta this weekend, aft a antheral riding a powered paraglider crashed Friday morning, suffering critical injuries.

Paramedics called Grande Prairie RCMP for help shortly aft 8:30 a.m. MT Friday, aft responding to calls from witnesses who saw the powered paraglider — a conveyance with a propeller attached to the backmost that's carried by a parachute — autumn into a canola field, an Alberta RCMP spokesperson told CBC News.

A STARS aerial ambulance was dispatched to the country and flew the rider, a 46-year-old antheral who lives successful the region of Grande Prairie, to the University of Alberta Hospital successful Edmonton, an bureau spokesperson told CBC News.

The RCMP spokesperson said the antheral was successful captious condition as of Saturday morning.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB), meanwhile, is sending a "team of investigators" to the clang tract successful the Grande Prairie country — astir 400 kilometres northwest of Edmonton — to "gather accusation and assess" the incident, according to a news merchandise issued Saturday.

The TSB, an autarkic national agency, investigates air, marine, pipeline and obstruction proscription incidents to amended proscription safety. Its investigations do not delegate fault, nor find liability.

This is the 2nd week successful a enactment the bureau sent unit to Alberta. Last week, investigators were sent to the Springbank Airport, conscionable westbound of Calgary, and Edson, Alta., to analyse abstracted incidents.

An researcher was sent to the airdrome to analyse an "accident involving an amateur-built aircraft," the TSB said successful a news merchandise connected May 16.

Two days later, the bureau said it was sending a squad to Edson, astir 195 kilometres westbound of Edmonton, aft 2 Canadian National Railway trains sideswiped each other, derailing respective cars.