A 53-year-old businessman parasailing at a college festival in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore on Sunday fell to his death from a height of around 60 metres - as high as a five-floor building - as his safety harness was not attached properly. A video recorded by a spectator shows Malleshwara Rao taking off at the Codissia grounds and within moments, dropping and hitting the ground with a thud. A sudden commotion when he was still in the air suggested that people were already scrambling towards him, realizing that his harness was giving way. Witnesses say he was hanging precariously with his safety belt unfastened to the paragliding gears. He was declared dead in a hospital.
