Video footage circulating online shows a person using a powered paraglider colliding with a property at the resort
Emergency services are this afternoon attending a reported ‘paraglider’ crash at a Co Fermanagh hotel on Sunday.
Video footage circulating online shows a person using a powered paraglider colliding with a property at Lough Erne Resort in Enniskillen.
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service have been tasted to the incident to rescue the paraglider from the roof of the hotel.
An eyewitness told Belfast Live that the man had been aiming to land on a helipad before hitting the hotel roof. They report that emergency services have been trying to get him to safety for ‘over two hours’ and is reportedly ‘badly injured’.
In a statement on social media, Lough Erne said that until the emergency services clear the incident, only hotel guests and those with restaurant bookings are permitted on the hotel grounds.
It read: “We can confirm that Emergency Services are in attendance as a result of an incident in which a person believed to be flying a paraglider was in collision with the hotel property.
“Apart from the immediate vicinity of the incident, the resort is operating normally and bookings are not affected.
“Until the emergency services have completed their work, access to the resort will be restricted to resort guests and patrons of our restaurants.
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