A 44-year-old woman is lucky to be alive after surviving a mid-air collision with a plane while she paraglided over the Australian Alps.
The woman’s survival story went viral over the weekend when footage she captured on her GoPro showed her sailing through the peaceful air before horror unfolded.
You can see in the footage that she’s enjoying the scenery before, out of nowhere, a Cessna 172 plane clips her, sending her spiraling out of control. The woman, identified by police only as Sabrina, was paragliding on Saturday, her birthday.
“Birthday to me 😇,” she captioned her viral post.
She added, “I actually still can’t believe that I’m sitting here typing this and apart from a few nasty bruises and bruises all around nothing really happened 🙏.”
According to multiple reports, Sabrian was paragliding over the Piesendorf area of Salzburg over the Australian Alps on Saturday. Police say that the 28-year-old pilot was unable to avoid the collision.
The video ends with Sabrina deploying her emergency chute, which helps her land safely.
“I expected turbulence, and instead you provided the most visually hardcore paragliding accident of this century. I can’t believe what I just watched!” one person commented.
Sabrina’s post has more than 250,000 likes and more than 11,000 comments.
This story was originally published by Men’s Journal on May 25, 2026, where it first appeared in the News section. Add Men’s Journal as a Preferred Source by clicking here.