Paraglider hospitalised after crash landing

A paraglider has been injured in a crash landing west of the Gold Coast.

·1 min read·By Gringo Media

A paraglider has been injured in a crash landing west of the Gold Coast.

The 24-year-old man

smashed into a rocky

outcrop at Cannon Creek

near Beaudesert this

afternoon.

He was flown to Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital with a compound leg

fracture and dislocated hip.

By; Fernando Godinho

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