Incident
- ID:
- SFFL 2
- Incident category:
- Speed Flying Fatality List
- Date:
- 30. 12. 2006
- Time:
- —
- Cause of death:
- —
- Launch site:
- Switzerland › Valais › Lauchernalp (Hockenhorngrat, Lötschental)
Equipment
- Wing:
- Unknown › Prototype
- Wing size:
- —
- Safety devices:
- —
Personal
- Name:
- Mathias Roten
- Age:
- 29
- Weight:
- —
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- Swiss
- Experience level:
- Experienced
- Experience description:
- —
- Time on wing:
- —
Circumstances
- Conditions:
- —
- Factors:
- —
Description
Matias Roten [29] having only flown the new Prototype glider a few times attempted to launch from
Hockenhorngrat, but it is believed the prototype glider he was testing failed to fully inflate correctly on launch resulting in him falling to his death when he reaches the steep gully.
No-one witnessed the accident.
http://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/tod...-id156117.html
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