Swaag Se Swaagat! Pakistani Paraglider Direct Landing On Chief Guest’s Lap Goes Viral | WATCH

A long-forgotten video of an event in Pakistan has been surfaced, making social media users in splits. The clip was shared by the popular account ‘Ghar Ke Kalesh’ on X. It depicts a paraglider making an unscheduled landing, right on the chief guest at Gilgit-Baltistan Independence Day celebration in 2023. The mishap happened when the region celebrated its 76th Independence Day, and the incident has been widely circulated online since then.

The Unexpected Descent

A dazzling show of paragliding replete with trails of red and blue smoke decorated the occasion, but when a paraglider misjudged the landing, the merriment took an interesting turn. Instead of hitting the targeted field, he plummeted right in front of the chief guest in the front row. Attendants scurried from where he crashed into their midst, although none was injured. After that unfortunate fall, the paraglider seemed to be enmeshed in his parachute.

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Social Media Reacts

The video has been viewed more than 604,000 times and liked by nearly 8,000 users since it was posted. Social media users found the incident very amusing, with one user commenting, “He landed like Green Goblin in the Spider-Man movie.” Another user quipped, “Never a day goes by when Pakistan isn’t doing Pakistani things.”

Others were paying attention to the comical details of the situation, such as the crowd still clapping and the cameraman not letting go of his focus. One user even speculated that perhaps the seating arrangement was at fault, saying, “He probably practiced landing there before, and they just put the VIP section in the same spot.”

Earlier Aviation Mishap Resurfaces

This is not the first time that a strange incident from Pakistan has been going viral. In another video, a Serene Air pilot cleaned the windshield of his plane manually before takeoff. This was on an Airbus A330-200, headed to Jeddah. The video prompted a heated debate on airline safety and ground crew responsibilities but was also justified by some as a normal pract