Experienced flier David Carus was forced to manipulate a badly broken arm back into position as he lay trapped face down in the wreckage.
An experienced Scots pilot was left "broken and battered" after crashing his glider nose first into a field at 70mph. David Carus found himself in excruciating pain and trapped face down in the wreckage after the aircraft plunged to the ground near Scotlandwell, Kinross-shire.
Recalling the crash, which happened as he was trying to return to land, Dundee man David, 71, said: "I have made around 600 flights and that day I made a stupid mistake that brought me as near to death as I ever want to come. "Either eventuality would be disastrous. I was struggling to turn her as I was trying to hold on to the canopy, open the flaps for the air brakes and operate the controls.
"I knew I hadn't broken my neck as I could wiggle my legs and feet but I couldn't see anything out of my right eye and my right arm looked like it had two elbows. The pain was excruciating in my eye and that overpowered the pain in my arm," he said. "My harness was cut free and a local farmer used his tractor to lift the aircraft off me, leaving me on the ground and the paramedics able to tend me more easily. It's all a bit hazy but I knew I was in safe hands," he said.
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