Paraglider narrowly avoids plunging to his death

An acro paraglider in Spain came just a second from death after his break line got stuck.

A helmet camera captured the frightening moment Kevin Philipp became tangled and began to plunge quickly towards the ground.

He eventually managed to manually open his rescue package just in time, estimating he had only a second left.

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He said the scenario, which he said happened in strong turbulence today, is "quite unlucky and rare".

"Acro paragliding trick in strong turbulence went wrong. Break line got stuck," he wrote.

"Falling into the lines and wing made the rescue parachute throw quite hard.

"The falling speed increased a lot due to the twisting wing.

"Very last chance was to manually open the rescue package.

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"This was not the day to die!"

Acro paragliding is short for acrobatic paragliding which involves doing mid-air tricks.