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WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: The 36-year-old from Belarus was flying his paratrike, a kind of microlight, in the countryside when he crashed
A pilot who crashed his microlight into a tree and was skewered by a giant branch through his shoulder brushed off the serious injury by telling the doctors "I am Groot!".
Lying in hospital with a gigantic piece of wood thrust through his shoulder, Ivan Krasouski, joked that he was the Guardians of the Galaxy character Groot, a walking tree.
The 36-year-old from Belarus was flying his paratrike, a kind of microlight, in the countryside when he crashed into a forest.
Despite being impaled by the metre-long branch through his shoulder, Krasouski was well enough to film a video from his hospital bed laughing at the shocking accident.