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SFFL#14
Name: Unknown
Date: December 28, 2009
Nationality: Swiss
Location: Obersaxen, Piz Mundaun, Switzerland
COD: Impact, Rock wall
Ground Launching or Skiing: skiing.
Wing Type: Unknown
Wingloading: Unknown
Age: 26
Experience: Unknown
Beacon/Locator/Etc (Spot, in Reach, Recco, GPS): unknown
Description:
On Monday afternoon in Obersaxen area a Speed flyer was killed. He first started as a group of four pilots from Piz Mundaun. Shortly after starting his glider remained hanging from a ledge after the 26-year-old crashed into a rock wall which followed what is thought, a collision with the ropeways just after launch. He then fell about 200 feet down a steep and icy slope. Despite immediate resuscitation attempts by a third person and the mountain rescue service, the pilot couldn't be saved.
http://www.gr.ch/DE/institutionen/ve...200912291.aspx
http://www.nzz.ch/speedflyer-piz-mun...eckt-1.4389639
If anyone has additional information, and more importantly images we can use for this entry, please contact us.
Name: Unknown
Date: December 28, 2009
Nationality: Swiss
Location: Obersaxen, Piz Mundaun, Switzerland
COD: Impact, Rock wall
Ground Launching or Skiing: skiing.
Wing Type: Unknown
Wingloading: Unknown
Age: 26
Experience: Unknown
Beacon/Locator/Etc (Spot, in Reach, Recco, GPS): unknown
Description:
On Monday afternoon in Obersaxen area a Speed flyer was killed. He first started as a group of four pilots from Piz Mundaun. Shortly after starting his glider remained hanging from a ledge after the 26-year-old crashed into a rock wall which followed what is thought, a collision with the ropeways just after launch. He then fell about 200 feet down a steep and icy slope. Despite immediate resuscitation attempts by a third person and the mountain rescue service, the pilot couldn't be saved.
http://www.gr.ch/DE/institutionen/ve...200912291.aspx
http://www.nzz.ch/speedflyer-piz-mun...eckt-1.4389639
If anyone has additional information, and more importantly images we can use for this entry, please contact us.
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