Attempt to fly hoverboard across English Channel ends in failure

Franky Zapata started the flight from Sangatte in France. | Photo: DENIS CHARLET/AFP/Getty Images A French inventor’s attempt to become the first man to cross the English Channel on a hoverboard has ended in failure after he crashed while trying to land on a re-fueling station in the middle of the Channel, BBC News reports. Franky Zapata, who invented the jet-powered Flyboard Air, took off from near Calais earlier this morning, and had hoped to make the crossing to St Margaret’s Bay