6/26/2015 – Hang Glider Crash

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, RAVEN, SVU, and WCSAR assisted Careflight, NLTFPD, and TMFPD in locating a crashed hang glider on the south side of Slide Mountain. Teams were deployed from the Slide Mountain parking lot and Davis Creek Park after Careflight was able to give coordinates of the crash site, which was on a very steep slope on the northeast edge of the “slide” area. Foot teams coming from the top, as well as a Hasty Team medic that was hoisted down to the vicinity of the coordinates, were first on scene, and determined that the subject was deceased. Teams packaged the subject for hoisting, and he was flown to a helipad at the Bowers Mansion fire house.