( CNN ) -- A Canadian hang-gliding instructor who police say swallowed a memory card possibly containing video of a fatal accident was granted bail Friday , a court spokesman said . William Jonathan Orders , 50 , who was arrested and charged with obstructing justice , appeared in provincial court in Chilliwack , British Columbia . His bail was set at $ 5,750 ( Canadian ) , said Neil MacKenzie , communications counsel with the province 's criminal justice branch . Orders was instructed to turn over his passport and to not operate a hang glider or paraglider , he said . Lenami Godinez-Avila had just started a tandem hang-gliding flight with the instructor , when she fell from the glider , plunging hundreds of feet to her death Saturday in a heavily wooded part of western Canada , authorities say . Investigators say the instructor tried to hide what might be a key piece of evidence about what went wrong -- a possible onboard video recording of the flight -- in his digestive tract . The recording has since passed and is now in police custody , MacKenzie said . He declined comment on whether anything retrievable could be taken from the card . Calls on Thursday and Friday seeking comment from Orders ' attorney , Laird Cruickshank , were not immediately returned . The fall happened near Mount Woodside , from which Orders and the 27-year-old Godinez-Avila took off , more than 50 miles east of Vancouver . A witness , Nicole McLearn , told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. that when the glider was in the air , Godinez-Avila appeared to be wearing her harness , but it was n't attached to the glider . The passenger clung to Orders before she fell , McLearn said . `` He was horizontal but she was now hanging vertically , and it looked like in essence she had him in a bear hug around the chest area , '' McLearn told the CBC . `` I could see her starting to slip down his body ... past the waist , down the legs . Finally she got to the feet and tried to hang on and obviously could n't hang on for that much longer and let go , tearing off the tandem pilot 's shoes in the process , '' McLearn said . Jason Warner , safety director for the Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association of Canada , told the CBC on Sunday that he talked to Orders shortly after the incident on Saturday afternoon . `` He tried to grab her -- he tried to grab her harness , everything he could , wrapped his legs around her -- and she slipped down his legs and then fell , '' Warner told the CBC . Orders told police he had swallowed the memory card of the onboard camera , Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Tracy Wolbeck said . When asked whether Orders explained why he had done so , Wolbeck said she could n't comment further on conversations he 'd had with investigators . The RCMP said it and the Coroners Service of British Columbia are investigating the incident . `` She became detached from the hang glider and fell , but how she came to be detached is what we 're still working on , '' said Barb McLintock , coroner with the Coroners Service of British Columbia . CNN 's Jason Hanna contributed to this report .
William Jonathan Orders was granted bail . He was with Lenami Godinez-Avila when she fell from the glider to her death . Police say Orders of swallowed a memory card possibly containing video of the fall . The recording has since passed and is now in police custody .