Incident
- ID:
- SFFL 14
- Incident category:
- Speed Flying Fatality List
- Date:
- 28. 12. 2009
- Time:
- —
- Cause of death:
- —
- Launch site:
- Switzerland › Grisons (Graubünden) › Piz Mundaun (Obersaxen)
Equipment
- Wing:
- —
- Wing size:
- —
- Safety devices:
- —
Personal
- Name:
- Unknown Pilot
- Age:
- —
- Weight:
- —
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- Swiss
- Experience level:
- —
- Experience description:
- —
- Time on wing:
- —
Circumstances
- Conditions:
- —
- Factors:
- —
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