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There was a fatality at ITW yesterday, a French jumper died after a 2 way jump. More details to follow. Thoughts to the friends and family.

http://instantshotweb.blogspot.com/2011/06/incidente-mortale-francese-si-schianta.html

Michel Gaillardou from Toulouse, France.

via freetranslation.com
DRO - A French citizen is dead this morning, after to be famous from the beak dell' eagle, on the mountain Brento in locality Gaggiolo, in province of Thirty in the valley of the Sarca. Its name Michel Gaillardou of Toulouse in France, the next month July has had finished 56 years, has thrown with the parachute, from the beak dell' eagle, together to another friend also it transalpine, were from little glances them hours 10,00. The conditions metereologiche were very good without a thread of wind, likely a broken technician, or l' late opening of the parachute, the possible cause dell' carving. TO land was assisting to the throw an its friend, that saw the first throw to go well, unfortunately for the second throw, the victim something went crooked, the woman that was on the meadow of the Gaggiolo, saw that the parachute is not itself open well, and understood immediately the drama just its friend is landed they have given immediately l' alarm to 118 of Thirty, immediately l left' helicopter from the base of Mattarello, of of trent emergency that arrived on the place, in just 6 minute after the call, the pilot of the aircraft employed some minutes to find the unlucky sporty transalpine, not a lot far away, where a month ago actual June 3, another Russian pilot, had lost the life throwing itself with the parachute, the body without life and been locating on the perpendicular one of the beak dell' eagle, l' man lay On a spike of rock, on the place in wall a technical rescuer that was on board dell it was lowered' helicopter, helped from another component of the helped mountain of Shore of the Garda, that was carried in contribution with the aircraft. The rescuers year employed about a hour to recover the corpse, difficult the phases of the I recover some body, l' now lacking man life was found tangled to its sail, above a ledge, seems that is hurled actual where was found, now a flight without I rescue, in a wall to I overhang. The men of the helped mountain had a fine one to do, after to have set down the corpse in a bag, l' helicopter provided to carry the downstream, on the opposite meadow the bar you seem striped, where to await it its friends, to the soldiers of the station of the military policemen of DRO, the task of hearing the witnesses, in this case the friends. The prosecutor of the republic of Rovereto arranged that the corpse came transferred to the mortuary of Arch. The I recover some corpse in wall

Just to add, a less encrypted translation. Though still quite rough.


A French citizen died this morning after being launched from 'The Beak of the Eagle', a mountain resort situated in the province of Trento in the Sarca valley.

The deceased French citizen was Gaillardou Michel from Toulouse; he would have been 56 years old this July.

Just after 10:00am he was launching off the Beak of the Eagle with another friend, conditions were very good with very little to no wind and it is suspected that the cause of the incident was a technical failure or the late opening of the parachute. There was an assistant, a friend on the ground who witnessed the incident and saw that the first launch was successful, though unfortunately for the victim during the second launch, something went wrong. The witness on the ground noticed that there was a problem with the parachute and said it looked as if it didn't open properly, she immediately understood the nature of the situation. When the person who had jumped first landed, he immediately gave the alarm to 118 of Trento. The emergency helicopter arrived just six minutes after the call. After several minutes they found the ill-fated sports Alps, not far from where just a month ago on June 3 (they likely meant May 3), a Russian pilot lost his life during a parachute related incident. The lifeless body of the victim was located on the perpendicular of the beak of the eagle, the man was lying on a rock on the wall where the rescuers performed the rescue.

It took the rescuers about an hour to retrieve the body and encountered some difficult stages in the mission to retrieve it. There was a lot of work to do by the rescue team. After the body had been retrieved it was bagged and taken to the valley.

The public prosecutor in Rovereto has ordered that the body is transferred to the mortuary of Arc.