“My passion for flying originally started because my grandfather was a pilot in the army,” Vella said.
Vella was in shock when he fell from the sky, he didn’t know anything else besides that his right arm was destroyed.
He suffered a broken neck, he also broke his thoracic spine, lumbar spine, tailbone, and pelvis in three different places. Vella also said he bruised his lung and damaged his heart just from the blunt-force trauma.
A friend of Vella’s set up a GoFundMe page for him while he was still recovering from his surgeries. Vella and his wife never thought of opening one, but at this point, it has been helpful for them due to the cost of medical expenses.
If you would like to help Anthony in his recovery process, you can click here.
33-year-old Anthony Vella was trying out his new BGD Luna 3 paramotor just outside of Austin, in the Enchanted Rock State Park northwest of Austin. Just as the machine reached 85–100 feet at 50 MPH, it suddenly collapsed and sent Vella plummeting to the ground. The husband, and father of four young children, posted the harrowing footage from his hospital bed.
“BDG Luna 3 is not responsible for this crash,” Vella clarified before explaining that the accident was triggered due to “a small tension knot that I hadn’t seen.”
Vella went on to elaborate: “When you are fully accelerated using the trims and fully accelerated on the speed bar, if you were to apply any sort of break input to a glider that is fully accelerated, it will result in a big collapse. The tension knot was akin to applying breaks.”
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