GIRL SEES PARASAIL FATHER DIE IN FALL
0 Comments | Evening Standard; London (UK), Jul 28, 2010 | by Kiran Randhawa
A FATHER plunged to his death in front of his daughter as they were parasailing while on holiday in Turkey.
Emma Hudson, 25, watched in horror as her father Glenn, 50, fell to the beach from 164 feet up after his safety harness reportedly snapped.
They had been sailing through the air together on a tandem flight being towed by a boat when tragedy struck at the Mediterranean resort of Side on Saturday.
Miss Hudson said: “We were up there for about 10 minutes and suddenly he dropped. I was right next to him. We’d been chatting happily and then he was gone.
“I was screaming but it didn’t seem like I was screaming. It didn’t seem to take long for him to hit the beach.
“It was all unreal. It took a few moments before I realised what was going on. Then it seemed to take forever to get me down. Dad was lying on the beach below and I was dangling above. I saw him fall, I saw him hit the beach and I saw him lying on the beach.”
Today Mr Hudson’s wife Linda, 51, called for health and safety to be tightened up. Mrs Hudson, from Colchester, said: “I know my husband wouldn’t want me to let him die for nothing. I won’t let this go.”
Roof tiler Mr Hudson and his wife were on holiday with Emma, who works in sales, son Benn, 22, who is an electrician, and his girlfriend Jo Clarke. The Hudsons had been going to Turkey for about nine years and Mr Hudson had parasailed from the beach several times previously.
On Saturday, he and Emma paid about Pounds 40 each to have a go. Mrs Hudson said she stayed on the beach taking snaps as her husband and daughter rode out in the speedboat
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