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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“Birthday to me \ud83d\ude07,” she captioned her viral post.<\/p>\n
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 \ud83d\ude4f.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The video ends with Sabrina deploying her emergency chute, which helps her land safely.<\/p>\n
“I expected turbulence, and instead you provided the most visually hardcore paragliding accident of this century. I can\u2019t believe what I just watched!” one person commented.<\/p>\n
Sabrina’s post has more than 250,000 likes<\/a> and more than 11,000 comments.<\/p>\n This story was originally published by Men’s Journal<\/a> on May 25, 2026, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Men’s Journal as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n