Close shave!

By Tue Jun 10, 2014

An unsuspecting sunbather was nearly crushed by a light aircraft while lying on a German beach in a terrifying incident caught on camera according to The Mirror.
We have the astonishing video (below) capturing the single-engine plane's wheels grazing by what appears to be just inches above the sunbather's bare back in Heligoland, an island in northern Germany.
Incredibly according to The Mirror no-one was hurt.
After missing the bather the low-flying plane ploughed through a wooden fence and landed in the sand just short of the runway.

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