Sheriff's Office Releases Additional Details on Paramotor Crash – Brainerd Dispatch

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Sheriff's Office Releases Additional Details on Paramotor Crash – Brainerd Dispatch

BRAINERD — Additional details about a powered parachute crash south of Brainerd on Sept. 11 have been released by the Crow Wing County Sheriff's Office.

The crash was reported around 6:32 p.m. Sept. 11 at North Central Speedway off Business Highway 371. The driver, Wayne Kyar, 81, of Brainerd, died of his injuries at the scene.

According to a witness, Kyar’s aircraft appeared to have suffered a mechanical failure and Kyar slid into a tree while losing altitude, the Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Office reported in a news release late Friday afternoon, Sept. 13. Kyar then fell approximately 50 feet from his aircraft. Paramedics and first responders performed life-saving measures on Kyar, but he succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased by paramedics around 7:16 p.m.

The Federal Aviation Administration was notified. Brainerd Police and Fire Departments, North Memorial Health Ambulance and Zone 1 First Responders assisted at the scene.

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