THIS is the terrifying moment a military jet "buzzed" a pair of paragliders at 345mph - while flying just 60ft away.

The Royal Navy Hawk "strayed" into their fly zone while on a practice bombing run on an adjacent military range.

The jet passing the paragliders at 345mph over Salisbury Plain Credit: Martin Harris/East Anglia News Service

One shocked paraglider pilot said the training jet passed so close he could feel the heat from its engine.

Dramatic footage of the near miss was filmed by fellow paraglider Martin Harris on his helmet camera.

He can be heard talking on the video, saying: "Jet fighter giving it big licks around me. Check that puppy out."

Then as the Hawk soared above him, he nervously laughed saying: "Like a wild man. He’s fast - wicked."

One paraglider said the Royal Navy Hawk passed just 60ft below him Credit: Martin Harris/East Anglia News Service

An official report has now revealed the Hawk pilot had not been briefed the paragliders were next to the range.

The jet was equipped with an “antiquated’” navigation system consisting of a map, stopwatch, and an old GPS unit .

Its pilot may also have been blinded by the sun as he roared over Salisbury Plain at 1,200ft, investigators were told.

The incident happened on January 26, but has just been made public by the UK Airprox Board which probes near misses.

The paragliders were all flying legally in an authorised area over Bratton Camp near Westbury, Wiltshire.

One pilot saw the jet sweep left and end up “directly on a collision course” with him, said the report.

The shocking near miss was filmed by another paraglider Credit: Martin Harris/East Anglia News Service

The flyer from the Avon Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club said it then zoomed past around 60ft below him.

The report said: “The paraglider pilot noted that he would have been directly into the sun from the fast-jet pilot’s perspective, so doubted the pilot had seen him."

The Hawk pilot claimed he had been “operating under an extremely high workload” when he passed the paragliders and described the risk of collision as “very high”.

He immediately climbed to 6,000ft and aborted his mission before returning to his Royal Navy flying base at Culdrose, Cornwall

Royal Navy chiefs told investigators the Hawk pilot was supposed to stay on the bombing range, but there had been an “unintentional spill-out” through into the paragliding area.

The report found that the Hawk pilot and paragliders “shared an equal responsibility for collision avoidance”.

It rated it as the most serious Category A incident where there was a “serious” risk of collision, and blamed it on “effectively a non-sighting by the Hawk pilot”.

The report recommended that the Avon Hang Gliding and Paraglding Club and the military improve their communication

Tim Bishop, the club’s safety officer, said: “One of the paraglider pilots who was closest could feel the heat from the jet’s engine. He was badly shaken and went to land immediately.

“He would have seen the jet heading directly towards him from half a mile away. The jet reached him in a couple of seconds and he had no time to react.

"He would have ben acutely aware that it would have been impossible for him to take any avoiding action."