Incident
- ID:
- SFFL 9
- Incident category:
- Speed Flying Fatality List
- Date:
- 17. 03. 2009
- Time:
- —
- Cause of death:
- —
- Launch site:
- Peru › Cordillera Blanca › Mt Vallunaraju
Equipment
- Wing:
- Gin Gliders › Nano
- Wing size:
- 14.0 m²
- Safety devices:
- Unknown
Personal
- Name:
- Max Schivari
- Age:
- 36
- Weight:
- —
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- —
- Experience level:
- —
- Experience description:
- —
- Time on wing:
- —
Circumstances
- Conditions:
- —
- Factors:
- —
Description
Max Schivari 36, crashed about 5000 meters up the slopes of Vallunaraju - After take off he rose up in the air, before his canopy stalled. He could do nothing and fell about 100 meters down into the rocks below. The 5 other members of the expedition: Luca Gardin, Sebastian Günther Mayr, Thomas Immelmann, Cristoph Vonmetz & Guido Trevisan immediately rendered first aid and was taken to hospital, where they could do nothing against the gross violations, Max died in hospital in Huaraz.
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