KELOWNA, B.C. – A Saskatchewan man has been identified as the pilot killed in the crash of a powered paraglider near Vernon, B.C.
The B.C. Coroner’s Service says 43-year-old Barry Kleiter, from Humboldt, Sask., was on a solo training flight Thursday morning.
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He was in radio contact with an instructor on the ground when something went wrong and the glider plunged 300 metres to the ground.
Kleiter had been taking a paraglider flying course for about a week.
The coroner’s service and RCMP are investigating the accident.
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