Swiss jet wing adventurer ditches but safe

ATLANTERRA: A Swiss adventurer trying to soar from Morocco to Spain on jet-powered wings ditched safely into the Atlantic on Wednesday after hitting turbulence and clouds so thick he could not tell if he was flying up or down. The bad weather – rather than a mechanical malfunction, as reported earlier by the project’’s sponsors – thwarted Yves Rossy’’s bid to become the first person to achieve such an intercontinental crossing. Rossy waved from the cold blue sea while awaiting rescue, his red wing and striped parachute floating beside him