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Fatalities from wingsuit flying have occurred almost from the inception of the sport. Listed below are notable examples where wingsuit pilots were publicly named in the press, including when wingsuit practice was not the first cause of death. Date Name Age Location Details 4 February 1912 Franz Reichelt 33 France The inventor of a pre-modern wingsuit, jumped from the Eiffel Tower to his death ...
Preliminary investigation revealed that a Schleicher ASH 26 glider, operated by 84-year-old Dieter S. Schmidt, of Springboro, was being towed by a fixed-wing, single-engine Piper plane.
Loss of right-hand wing due to wing strut fitting failure during demonstration flight; [9] St. Louis mayor William D. Becker also dies in this accident [10] Jesse Robredo: Philippines 2012 Secretary of the Interior and Local Government: Piper PA-34 Seneca: Waters near Masbate, Philippines Engine failure Knute Rockne: Norway 1931
Pilot Aaron Hogue died in the crash. [24] August 26 - A Pitts S-1S crashed during an aerobatic practice flight in preparation for an Air Ambulance display at Shobdon Airfield in Herefordshire, UK. The plane entered a dive at the top of a climbing vertical rolling maneuver and did not have enough height to effect a safe recovery.
British army veteran Bill Gladden, who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet that tore through his ankle a few days later, wanted to return to France for the 80th anniversary of the ...
Dwain Weston (31 January 1973 – 5 October 2003) was an Australian skydiver, BASE jumper, wingsuiter and software developer. On 5 October 2003, at the end of the inaugural Go Fast Games, Weston died while attempting to fly over the Royal Gorge Bridge near Cañon City, Colorado, United States.
Wingsuit flyer over fields in the UK. Wingsuit flying (or wingsuiting) is the sport of skydiving using a webbing-sleeved jumpsuit called a wingsuit to add webbed area to the diver's body and generate increased lift, which allows extended air time by gliding flight rather than just free falling.
September 13 – Reno Air Races – M.D. Washburn, 40, of Houston, Texas, died when the wing of his North American T-6 Texan clipped a pylon and crashed while in a tight formation at the start of the race. [136] September 13 – Reno Air Races – While wing walking, Gordon McCollom of Costa Mesa, Calif. was hanging under a plane piloted by Joe ...