Overview
- Officials identified the deceased as 27-year-old Megan Elizabeth Roberts, whose glider crashed near Talan Jot at roughly 3,900 metres after she lost her route.
- Her body was brought to Kangra via Gaggal and will undergo a post-mortem at Tanda Medical College before handover to her family and the Canadian embassy.
- Austrian pilot Jacob Krammer, 47, was located in the Polling-Barot/Dehanasar area and was airlifted, dropped at Chogan in Bir, and taken for hospital checks.
- Rescuers used satellite-phone coordinates, air-dropped team member Rahul Singh to the crash site, and shifted the body to about 10,000 feet after a chopper failed to land higher.
- Both pilots had launched separately from the Bir-Billing site, triggering a coordinated operation by the Kangra administration and the Billing Paragliding Association.