Incident
- ID:
- SFFL 30
- Incident category:
- Speed Flying Fatality List
- Date:
- 24. 04. 2012
- Time:
- —
- Cause of death:
- —
- Launch site:
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France › Hautes-Alpes › La Grave
Other incidents at this location: SFFL 98
Equipment
- Wing:
- —
- Wing size:
- —
- Safety devices:
- Unknown
Personal
- Name:
- Christophe Gautier
- Age:
- 52
- Weight:
- —
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- French
- Experience level:
- —
- Experience description:
- —
- Time on wing:
- —
Circumstances
- Conditions:
- —
- Factors:
- —
Description
A 52 year old man from Pontault-Combault died due to injuries sustained from a speed-riding accident in Les Deux Alpes. He was speed riding with a group of friends on an off-piste area of Les Deux Alpes when he was said to have misjudged a manoeuvre, leading him to a 40 metre cliff drop. The man was found near the bottom of a waterfall in the Rif des Balmes torrent at 1400 metres altitude in the neighbouring resort of La Grave in a critical condition. He was airlifted to a hospital in Grenoble but sadly died overnight..
Speed riding when he misjudged some manoeuvre while flying terrain and fell 120'.
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