An instructor and a passenger died on Monday morning after a hang-glider crashed at the free-flight landing strip at São Conrado Beach, in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone.
According to the Fire Department, both victims were found in critical condition and in cardiac arrest. They were taken to the Miguel Couto Municipal Hospital in Gávea for treatment.
A Fire Department aircraft assisted in rescuing one of the victims. The hospital later said that the medical team made every effort to save them, but both patients died.
The identities of the instructor and passenger had not been released.
Sources: CNN Brasil.