Motorized paraglider traveling at 50mph flips over and smashes into the Texas desert

A YouTuber is lucky to be alive after crashing his paramotor when it flipped over and plummeted into the desert at 48mph.

Anthony Vella, 33, was testing a BGD Luna 3 in the Enchanted Rock State Park northwest of Austin, when it suddenly collapsed 85 to 100ft in the air.

He bravely shared the entire video of the crash and much of the half hour he spent lying on the ground in agony until paramedics reached his remote location.

Vella did not say in the intro to the footage, posted on Saturday, when the crash happened, but his previous video was posted eight days earlier.

The video began with him in his hospital bed where he is being treated for a fractured neck, back, and pelvis and a shattered right arm.

He explained that the crash was due to him missing a small pension knot during his checks before taking off.

Applying brakes to a fully accelerated glider collapses it, and a tension knot snagging has the same effect.

Vella showed the crash from three different angles as he fell to Earth and immediately screamed in pain from his serious injuries.

''Help me please, I crashed my flying machine,' he told a dispatcher after desperately asking Siri to call 911.

A Good Samaritan arrived within two minutes of the crash and his friend two minutes later, who pulled the paramotor off him.

The first one later explained they were working nearby and said he saw him fall out of the sky and ran over after calling an ambulance.

However, they mostly spoke Spanish so Vella had to keep talking to dispatcher between screams of pain.