This is the moment a man nearly plunged 2,500ft after the wing on his powered paraglider malfunctioned and his emergency parachute became tangled.
Yanis Teriz, 35, was paramotoring - powered paragliding - in Itatiba, Brazil, when a tear in his wing caused him to spin out of control.
Dramatic footage shows him crashing towards the earth as he desperately tries to untangle his emergency chute.
Thankfully, he managed to free the parachute and successfully deploy it, despite falling at hundreds of miles an hour.
Yanis, who has been paramotoring for ten years, said: "I have done many flights and that is the closest I have come to certain death.
"In the past I have had small incidents like emergency landings but nothing like this.
"I was falling through the sky at a rapid pace, and if I did not manage to untangle the parachute I would not be speaking to you right now.
"I have learnt a valuable lesson from the experience but it didn't stop me from going out straight after for my next flight."
It comes after a paraglider died and another was seriously injured after a crash in the Scottish Highlands last year.
Sacha Dench - a scientist nicknamed "the human swan" - plummeted form the sky during her 3,000 mile journey.
Dan Burton, 54, who was in a separate paramotor, tragically lost his life.
They were taking part in a world-first circumnavigation of mainland Britain to raise awareness of climate change.
Ms Dench had been attempting to make the 3,000-mile journey to mark the Cop26 UN climate change conference.
Emergency services raced to the scene of the accident near Lochinver but Mr Burton could not be saved.
In a statement, the trustees of Conservation Without Borders said the accident happened in the western Highlands of Scotland near Loch Na Gainmhich.
The statement said: “We are very sorry to have to confirm that Dan Burton, the support paramotorist, has died as a result of the accident. Sacha Dench is seriously injured and is being treated in hospital. Her injuries are serious but not life threatening
“Both highly experienced paramotorists, our thoughts are with the family of Dan Burton, to whom we offer our sincere condolences.
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“The incident was attended by police and medics and inquiries are under way to establish the details of the accident.”
Ms Dench was given the name "the human swan" after she raised awareness of the plight of Bewick's swans by flying from the Russian Arctic to the UK. She also set a world record in 2016 by being the first woman to cross the Channel by paramotor.
The British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association said it would be undertaking a ‘formal investigation’ into the accident.
