Two people have been injured in a paragliding accident at Speargrass Flat, near Coronet Peak, this morning.
A freelance photographer at the scene said the reserve parachute had "definitely deployed".
"So something's happened that he's needed to deploy the reserve parachute,'' he said.
The people involved are a tourist and a guide from a commercial paragliding and hang-gliding company based in Queenstown.
Skytrek Tandem Hang Gliding and Paragliding said circumstances of the crash were not yet known, and that weather conditions were stable at the time.