Huge Kite Lifts Man, Who Gets Hurt in Fall

BEIJING - A man in south China broke both his legs and an arm when he fell to the ground after a fast-rising kite pulled him 5 meters (16 feet) into the air, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday.

I seem to recall somebody (Joseph Needham) arguing the Chinese invented manned flight on the basis that a Six Dynasties emperor strapped POW's to big kites, flew them, then had the rope cut, "setting them free" (mocking the Buddhist act of setting animals free 放生 as an act of piety.)