safer of the two extremes

[pojj 0]

which is safer ??skydiving or hang gliding,mate thinks hang gliding but i think the other

[quade 4]

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which is safer ??skydiving or hang gliding,mate thinks hang gliding but i think the other

Depends on how you want to look at it.

If it's injury per landing my guess is that hang gliding (rigid metal braced structure as opposed to paragliding) is probably more injury prone.

If it's injury per minute of participation, my guess is that skydiving is more injury prone.

It also depends on how you want to look at the word injury and what you're going to include in that.

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[lippy 918]

If we're going to talk about extremes here, what about synchronized swimming? Those bitches are crazy!

I got nuthin

[JohnMitchell 16]

An insurance actuarial table published in Time magazine 25 or so years ago rated hang gliding as 3 times more dangerous than skydiving. I don't know if changes in either sport has changed that ratio since then. Downhill skiing was much safer than either of those sports, and mountain climbing was the worst, maybe 10 times worse than skydiving.

[richard1954 0]

I went hang gliding once. Ended up in a pine tree.

I've skydived a couple times, ended up on the ground

[jcbfly 1]

It's the same. An average of one out of every 1000 participants in skydiving or hang gliding gets killed very year. BTW: The FAI considers paragliding to a form of hang gliding and both are governed here in the USA by the United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Assoc. (USHPA)

These days there are about 6000 members in the USHPA and there are an average of 6 fatal accidents each year. There are about 30,000 members in the USPA and an average of 30 die in fatal crashes every year.

Some years it's more and some it's less, but if you look at the stats going back for the last 30 years or so, I think you'll find 1 fatality per 1000 members per year to be realistic for both sports.