Tourist from Pune, pilot dead in a paragliding mishap in Goa

A constabulary officer, requesting anonymity, said: “The incidental took spot erstwhile the unfortunate Shivani was taking a tandem formation with Suman arsenic the pilot. One of the cables is suspected to person snapped mid-flight, owed to which they mislaid equilibrium and collided with immoderate rocks and crashed from a height.”

Police said some suffered superior injuries and were rushed to a hospital, wherever they were declared dead. “We person informed the families of the deceased. A probe has been initiated. Inquest proceedings are ongoing,” the constabulary serviceman added.

Police person booked the proprietor of the escapade sports company, which was conducting the paragliding, nether conception 105 of BNS, 2023 (culpable homicide, not amounting to murder).

In a statement, constabulary said the accused, Shekhar Raizada, proprietor of an escapade sports company, “without obtaining support from the due authorization knowingly allowed his paraglider aviator to behaviour the paragliding activities with the tourist, with the cognition that his enactment volition endanger life…the accused intentionally permitted tourist…and paragliding pilot…without valid licence to transportation retired paragliding from a tallness resulting successful death”.