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Mountain Rescue Service teams have helped two injured paragliders, the Mountain Rescue Service told Focus News Agency. The two men were injured in paragliding accidents near Dupnitsa. The rescuers have conducted two operations. One of the men is a Japanese. Both were taken to hospital in good condition.

A video circulating on the internet shows the last moments of a Turkish paragliding pilot and a Pakistani paraglider as they plunged to their deaths in a tandem paraglide accident on April 15.

The accident happened Thursday morning around 06:45 CET. The circumstances surrounding the accident are yet unclear. On the scene investigation will be conducted to determine the cause of the crash, daily Blic writes.

A hang glider participates in the 32nd Panhellenic Hang Gliding Championship, which started on Saturday in Old Kastania, in the Municipality of Servia-Velvento, northern Greece. Around 40 of Greece's best hang gliders are competing daily. The championship is co-organized by the Hellenic Aeronautical & Airsports Federation and the Municipality of Servia-Velvento.

A 39-year-old Czech national lost his life in a paragliding accident on Thursday in the region of Pella in northern Greece.

According to reports on Friday, he launched, along with four others paragliders, from a cliff in Aghios Athanasios. After he failed to land with the others, a search was launched and his body was found hours later in a forested area.

Two people have lost their lives in an incident with a hung glider not far from Kazanlak in central Bulgaria.

The pilot has died in the crash. The other man has passed away en route to the hospital, public radio BNR reports.

Spanish paraglider Horacio Llorens has fullfilled his lifetime ambition to paraglide through the Aurora Borealis.

He is one of the top acro-paragliders in the world and for many years he had been trying to make his dream true and flight through the elusive northern lights.

Haunting video footage of Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz enjoying a flying lesson in a glider has come to light. The video shows the pilot responsible for the Germanwings Airbus murder-suicide laughing as he takes off and lands solo. He is believed to have been in his late teens during the recording obtained by ITV news.