Incident
- ID:
- SFFL 81
- Incident category:
- Speed Flying Fatality List
- Date:
- 03. 09. 2021
- Time:
- 18:30
- Cause of death:
- Low Turn To Impact
- Launch site:
- France › Haute-Savoie › Plateau d'Agy (Saint-Sigismond)
Equipment
- Wing:
- Little Cloud › Spiruline EZ
- Wing size:
- 12.5 m²
- Safety devices:
- —
Personal
- Name:
- Quentin Vaussenat
- Age:
- 23
- Weight:
- 65
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- French
- Experience level:
- Beginner
- Experience description:
- —
- Time on wing:
- —
Circumstances
- Conditions:
- —
- Factors:
- Piloting error Hit the ground
Description
Junior pilot with a passion for free flight. Got caught in an uncontrolled rolling movement, ultimately swerving towards the ground and impacting at full speed.
An expert mountaineer, cross-country skier, downhill biker, motorsports enthusiast, and a former national savate champion at a young age, Quentin was a caporal in the renowned French Alpine Corps (7th Bataillon de chasseurs alpins) which he had joined in December 2018.
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