2023-09-21 13:50:00
The wingsuit is a wingsuit or wingsuit used for gliding, as a form of parachuting (AFP).
An airplane pilot is on trial for involuntary manslaughter after unintentionally beheading a skydiver flying in southwestern France in July 2018.
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Alain C, 64, is accused of his involvement in an accident in which the left wing and a strut of his single-engine hit Nicolas Galy, 40, an engineer and experienced skydiver. The action severed his head, according to The Times.
Seconds before the accident, Galy had descended from the Pilatus plane with the wingsuit, a wingsuit used for gliding, a type of parachuting. The victim was the first of two wingsuiters that launched at around 4,400 meters above Bouloc-en-Quercy, north of Toulouse, in July 2018.
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Alain C’s plane continued its journey and upon descending, reached the line of both paratroopers when they were at about 1,000 feet. They had finished their initial free fall and began to glide. There the collision occurred, after which Galy’s emergency parachute opened and his body descended inertly into a field.
The accident occurred at about a thousand feet high (AFP)
Alain C. told the Montauban court that he did not know he had the wingsuiters ahead of him: “Compared to skydivers who go in free fall, it is more complicated with wingsuiters who go more in a straight line. They do not descend much and can come into conflict with the aircraft,” he declared, according to The Times.
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The pilot assured that Galy, an experienced skydiver who had made 226 jumps, “did not follow the expected trajectory and should never have been on that line.”
“It was parallel to the plane and I thought it was further north. It wasn’t my responsibility. I think my flight path made sense. “It has been the tragedy of my life, but I am not to blame,” he stated.
Prosecutor Jeanne Regagnon believes that the parachutist respected procedures. “The victim was the only one who obeyed the rules without negligence,” she said.
Alain C. acknowledged that his license was not valid for the flight because he had violated the restrictions that had been imposed on him due to a medical problem.
His lawyer Elsa Correa Barbaris said that skydiving is an extremely dangerous sport. “Flying touches human limits,” she said.
The prosecutor requested a 12-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 10,000 euros ($10,600) for the Midi-Pyrénées skydiving school.
The investigation by the General Directorate of Air Accident Investigation attributed the incident to the lack of instructions to the parachutists, the abrupt and immediate descent of Alain C. after losing sight of the jumpers, and the inadequate procedures used by the French Parachuting Federation. to launch them, according to The Times.
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