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http://www.leprogres.fr/faits-divers/2011/06/12/un-base-jumper-se-tue-en-isere

here some info from FBA:

http://www.base-jump.com/index.php/topic,3946.0.html

http://www.leprogres.fr/...mper-se-tue-en-isere

here some info from FBA:

http://www.base-jump.com/...hp/topic,3946.0.html



translated from the fba site - please correct if wrong

But having jumped with him last Saturday, I think he turned on the right before the first "ledge" and it was quite simply too low. he had not succeeded in doing it Saturday, … It is probable he made a miscalculation height and of trajectory on a flight of proximity. The flights of proximity requires a very great control of the wingsuit and the least small error to be fatal ! We all are admiring of the vidéos of proximity flying, but before imitated the old ones, can be would owe imitated us their numbers of jumps: 1000,1200,1500… To lose Bryan, give it some reflection.

the first article says somethinging like:

An about 30 year old man was Recovered dead from the Dévoluy massif after his "chute failed to open correctly" on his basejump.

The alert was rung by a friend of the victim, who didn`t have the news till one hour after. He confirmed to the "mountain rescue service" that the parachutist, who lived in Gervais (Haute-Savoie), must have jumped from the summits between "Grand Ferrand" and l’Obiou.

The body of the thirty year old was found on an altitude of 2400m with the (i`m not shure if that is the right translation because it means something like sail..) "canopy" out, 400 meters beneath the "exit point", before being extracted from the vally by helicopter.

Base-jumping is a form of parachuting that involves jumping from a fixed objekt not an airplane

please correct me if i translated wrong
my condolences...