An air ambulance was sent to Coppett Hill near Goodrich, at 6.15pm on Friday, August 5th, after an eyewitnesses called to report a paraglider, which they believed had crashed into a hill.

However, the man involved in the incident, Chris Ashdown, was uninjured in the incident. On the Ross Gazette’s Facebook page, Chris shared a picture of himself looking fed up, but unscathed, after the landing.

On Friday afternoon, after the emergency services were contacted, a community first responder, an ambulance and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Strensham were sent to the scene.

Within half an hour of the call being received, the aircrew, who were overhead, confirmed that there was only one patient, who had been on the paraglider. He gave them a thumbs up and he seemed uninjured.

The land ambulance crew advised that air ambulance to stand down. They were with Chris, and they confirmed he was uninjured. Chris had landed by accident, and had not crash landed due to an injury.

Chris told the Ross Gazette: “I flew in from Garway Hill, but could not make the top of Coppett Hill, so to avoid the over head power cables, I had to do a slope landing into the bracken.

“It was total pilot error not leaving myself an escape route. I would like to thank the emergency services, even though they were not required on this occasion.”

He added that he had not been put off from paragliding in the future. He said: “I would recommend this sport to anybody, the feeling of free flight without power is the closest you’ll get to being a bird.”