• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Trending:
  • Kashmir
  • Elections
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Daily Times

Your right to know

  • HOME
  • Latest
  • Iran-Israel Tensions
  • Pakistan
    • Balochistan
    • Gilgit Baltistan
    • Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
    • Punjab
    • Sindh
  • World
  • Editorials & Opinions
    • Editorials
    • Op-Eds
    • Commentary / Insight
    • Perspectives
    • Cartoons
    • Letters to the Editor
    • Featured
    • Blogs
      • Pakistan
      • World
      • Ramblings
      • Lifestyle
      • Culture
      • Sports
  • Business
  • Sports
  • Lifestyle
  • E-PAPER
    • Lahore
    • Islamabad
    • Karachi

French hoverboard daredevil ‘fine’ after lake plunge

A French inventor and adventurer who in 2019 crossed the English Channel aboard a jet-powered hoverboard on Sunday said he was feeling well after a dramatic plunge into a lake from mid-air in southwest France.

Franky Zapata had fulfilled a lifelong dream by zooming across the Channel on a “flyboard” he developed himself and in 2019 also stunned onlookers including President Emmanuel Macron by soaring into the Paris skies during the annual Bastille Day parade.

But during a demonstration event on Saturday in Biscarosse in southwest France, Zapata had dramatically plunged some 15 metres (50 feet) into a lake after initially soaring into the air without any problem.

Regional press reports said he had been hospitalised after being taken away on a stretcher. But there was no detail on what injuries he may have sustained.

It was also not immediately clear what had caused Zapata, 43 and a former jet-ski champion, to lose control of his contraption. “I am doing fine,” Zapata wrote on his social media accounts, thanking the public for their support and emergency services for their assistance.

“This reminds us that we are not birds and that if we are not excellent then gravity wins.” “We learn something from our mistakes and we should not think we can change mobility without making some,” he added.

Filed Under: World

Submit a Comment




Primary Sidebar




Latest News

Justice Dogar, 3 others sworn in as high court CJs

Govt approves four potential bidders for national airline

Govt to deploy AI, experts in push to modernize agriculture

US calls Pakistan’s Nobel nomination for Trump ‘win’ for Americans

Govt approves sugar import of upto 500,000 tonnes to maintain ‘affordable prices’

Pakistan

Justice Dogar, 3 others sworn in as high court CJs

Govt approves four potential bidders for national airline

Govt to deploy AI, experts in push to modernize agriculture

US calls Pakistan’s Nobel nomination for Trump ‘win’ for Americans

Govt approves sugar import of upto 500,000 tonnes to maintain ‘affordable prices’

More Posts from this Category

Business

Asia number one target of Trump’s tariff letters

Finance Minister reviews progress on rightsizing reforms

Rupee loses 15 paisa against dollar

PSX gains 33 points

SECP achieves milestones in Corporate registry during FY 2025

More Posts from this Category

World

ICC seeks arrest of Taliban supremo, Afghan CJ over persecution of women

Netanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize as Gazans await ceasefire

Trump plans tariff blitz: 50% on copper, 200% possible for medicines

More Posts from this Category




punjab

Footer

Home
Lead Stories
Latest News
Editor’s Picks

Culture
Life & Style
Featured
Videos

Editorials
OP-EDS
Commentary
Advertise

Cartoons
Letters
Blogs
Privacy Policy

Contact
Company’s Financials
Investor Information
Terms & Conditions

Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Youtube

© 2025 Daily Times. All rights reserved.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.OkPrivacy policy