Fatal fall in hang-glider
PA Auckland An Epsom man plunged 30m to his death in a hangglider at Piha yesterday afternoon. He was
Walter Tanner, aged 45. He suffered multiple head injuries when he dived headlong into the beach just after 4 p.m., and died five
hours later in the Auckland Hospital.
Mr Tanner was a manufacturing managing director, married with three children.
According to onlookers, Mr Tanner seemed to be buffeted by severe turbulence behind a big rock, and lost control.
Mr Tanner is the seventh hang-glider pilot to die in New Zealand.
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