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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Lucinda Cameron

‘Human swan’ breaks down in tears while giving evidence in fatal accident probe

Sacha Dench, an Australian, is known as the ‘human swan’ for her adventures using a paramotor to follow swans migrating from Russia across Europe to the UK (Andrew Milligan/PA) - (PA Archive)

A paramotorist known as the “human swan” has broken down in tears while giving evidence to an inquiry about a mid-air crash between herself and her co-pilot that left the latter dead.

Sacha Dench was attempting a 3,000-mile round Britain by paramotor challenge when the aircraft she was flying was involved in a collision with one flown by Dan Burton, 54.

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