It was a paragliding competition that brought him to the city of Palu on the island. And it was his passion for flying that next took him to one of the most beautiful aero-sport sites in the world: Bir, India.There, he met Mr Upendra Pande, who became his flying buddy — the man with whom he spent his last days on earth, and in the air.
Mrs Ng’s first thought was that it was a “quite dangerous” sport. But she saw that “he was very happy when he was flying”.His friend Christopher Hsieh also observed that he was picking it up “very fast” since he started in 2016. “He graduated very quickly to flying solo,” noted the Air Sports Federation of Singapore honorary secretary.After he obtained his licence and had gone paragliding “so often” — and to “many countries” — Mrs Ng “wasn’t so worried”.
“I was, at that moment, unable to stand up. KC was next to me, trying to stand,” the Belgian paraglider described. “One second later, KC was one metre above me … A second after that, it was the other way round.” Then the tsunami came, and Mr de Neuville, who was in a tree with the girl, feared the worst for his friend.
As it turned out, he had shouted for help “for about two hours or more until someone finally came”, said Ms Iriani. “He told me my daughter was alive. And that gave me the strength to live.”The others may not have known it then, but Mr Ng was “shaken” by the incident. It was his first visit to the Himalayan hamlet, but it did not take long before “everyone knew KC in Bir”, noted his room-mate Mr Pande.
“It didn’t look . But it was the Himalayan weather, we can’t predict,” he said. They took off together, but he cut short his flight as he tried to move away from the dark bank of cloud. On the day of the accident, Mr Pande was preparing some competition documents, so he did not fly. His last words to his friend were: “Have a safe flight. Enjoy, and see you at the landing.”Back in Singapore, Mrs Ng sensed something “was a bit unusual” that Monday, Oct 22, as her husband had not texted her to greet her good morning.
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