A TOURIST from Britain has been killed after a hang-gliding accident at Mount Beauty yesterday.
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The 29-year-old man crashed on landing near the Mount Beauty airfield just before 5pm after he took off from Mount Emu, a popular hang-gliding launch site.
Leading Sen-Constable Peter Johns, of Mount Beauty police, said the man had fallen about 50 metres and clipped a tree after reportedly losing control of the craft.
He said ambulance crews and witnesses performed CPR on the man for more than an hour but he was pronounced dead just after 6pm by a doctor at the scene.
An air ambulance had been called in from Melbourne but was turned back.
Ambulance Victoria spokesman John Mullen said the man suffered severe head and facial injuries and died at the scene after paramedics were unable to resuscitate him.
Sen-Constable Johns said it was still to be determined whether pilot error, weather factors or an equipment fault had contributed to the crash.
He said the man had visited the area to take part in an international hang-gliding event.