Incident
- ID:
- SFFL 65
- Incident category:
- Speed Flying Fatality List
- Date:
- 03. 09. 2018
- Time:
- —
- Cause of death:
- —
- Launch site:
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United States of America › San Jacinto › Soboba Flight Park
Other incidents at this location: SFFL 42
Equipment
- Wing:
- Ozone › Firefly
- Wing size:
- 16.0 m²
- Safety devices:
- —
Personal
- Name:
- Brian Albrecht
- Age:
- 30
- Weight:
- —
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- American
- Experience level:
- Beginner
- Experience description:
- —
- Time on wing:
- —
Circumstances
- Conditions:
- —
- Factors:
- —
Description
Started training course August 2nd. At the training course they told him that with all of his experience he would be able to get what he wanted in 3-4 days. Another instructor said that was reckless and wasn’t willing to train him in that amount of time. He ended up getting a trainer that would teach him at this faster pace.
Badly hurt leg August 4th and had to stop speed flying to recover. When this accident happened he said: “was doing aggressive maneuvers: hard left hard right hard left and built up so much momentum that when he came into final turn he didn’t get enough weight to the right so He didn’t turn right. And then he just braced for the crash.”
Recovered from the crash and returned to the same training course September 1st. He died in the exact same spot that heinitially hurt his his leg, likely doing something similar to how his first crash went. He died on September 3rd.
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