Caught in power lines: the India rescue in a Washington Post video
Thirty-seven seconds describe a rescue, but the dates keep its context intact: this Washington Post short covers the recovery of a Russian paraglider caught in high-voltage power lines in India on November 10.
YouTube’s original metadata dates the upload to November 11 at 19:15:34 Pacific time, already 04:15:34 on November 12 in Italy: this is a recent publication, not an accident that happened this morning.
**What we know beyond the clip.** The Indian Express identifies the pilot as Aleksei Ivakhin and places the incident near Mehar village, about five kilometres from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh.
The newspaper reports that he took off from Bir-Billing before his equipment became entangled in a power line, leaving him suspended along the Pathankot-Mandi national highway.
Those details come from local reporting; we do not claim to establish them from the images alone.
District administrator Apoorv Devgan told the newspaper that a hydraulic crane with a platform, provided by the road concessionaire, was used to reach the pilot; two air force helicopters were on standby, rather than described as carrying out the recovery.
Devgan also said the man was fine and undergoing a precautionary medical examination after the rescue: that is an attributed official account, not our own medical assessment.
**Timing the account.** The Post’s title refers to two hours in the lines, while The Indian Express distinguishes nearly two hours suspended from a rescue operation lasting more than two hours.
These are not independent stopwatches, so we preserve the attributions rather than infer one exact duration.
The reason to watch is the outcome of the rescue, not an invitation to copy dangerous manoeuvres.
The original link is the proposed viewing route: embedded playback has not been operationally confirmed, and the iframe remains a local technical proposal only.