The woman lost contact while flying in Zhangjiajie wing suit: local rescue

The woman lost contact with the local emergency management bureau when flying in the Tianmenshan wing suit of Zhangjiajie: will definitely continue the search and rescue

　　CCTV, Zhangjiajie, May 17 (Reporter Jiang Wenjing, Ren Mengyan, Li Tengfei) According to the China Voice "News" of the Central Radio and Television Station, a girl in Beijing lost contact in the flight of the Tianmen Mountain wing in Zhangjiajie, Continue to affect people's hearts. On May 12, when a Beijing-based cultural media company shot a short extreme sports documentary in the Tianmen Mountain Scenic Area in Zhangjiajie, two winged pilots jumped from a helicopter with a flying height of about 2500 meters to perform a high-altitude winged flight. The pilot lost contact due to deviation from the planned route during the flight.

　　The Tianmen Mountain Scenic Area in Zhangjiajie City issued an announcement saying that after the incident on the 12th, it immediately organized a multi-party search and rescue. However, due to the missing wing-mounted pilots did not carry mobile phones, GPS and other equipment, plus continuous rain in recent days, the mountains have heavy clouds and low visibility The complex terrain makes it extremely difficult for search and rescue. The Emergency Management Bureau of Yongding District, Zhangjiajie City also said that a special working group has been set up on the day of the incident to continuously organize personnel search and rescue.

　　After official verification, the missing winged pilot was a senior student in a college in Beijing. It has been 117 hours since the loss of contact at 11 am on May 12 (as of 8 am on the 17th). The search and rescue work is still in progress. This time, the rescue team and fire brigade organized by the local government of Zhangjiajie and the professional team sent by the blue sky rescue team carried out joint search and rescue. At the same time, program crews, scenic spots, and local people familiar with the terrain also participated in the search and rescue.

　　A member of the Zhangjiajie City Blue Sky Rescue Team introduced that on the 12th, the rescue team was notified to carry out search and rescue, which has been continuing. However, considering the safety of rescuers at night, the search and rescue team had to suspend search and rescue. The mountain peaks of Zhangjiajie are steep and the clouds are foggy. On May 13 and 14, the local area also encountered heavy precipitation, which caused great difficulty for search and rescue. At present, the search and rescue team mainly conducts a carpet search in the area behind the Tianmen Mountain. There are more than a dozen mountains that need to be investigated, and the workload is extremely large. The rescue team will focus on searching for high mountains and cliffs, and mobilized helicopters and drones. As of now, no missing objects have been found. The person in charge of Zhangjiajie Yongding District Emergency Management Bureau said that he did not give up and will continue to search and rescue.

　　Wing-mounted flight, especially low-altitude wing-mounted flight, is a dangerous and difficult sport. Wing-mounted flight, to be precise, unpowered wing-mounted flight, is also called close-sky gliding or "flying squirrel gliding" movement.

　　As the name implies, athletes wear flying wings and parachute equipment that look like flying squirrels or flying squirrels. They jump from airplanes, hot air balloons, and even from the tops of bridges and high buildings. They use physical movements to control them. Gliding direction, the movement of unpowered air flight, the forward speed can reach more than 200 kilometers per hour. When the flight height is low to the safety limit, the athlete will open the parachute and land smoothly.

　　The girl who lost contact has rich experience, why is there such an accident? How dangerous is winged flight?

　　A staff member of the Zhangjiajie City Propaganda Department said that the Tianmen Mountain Scenic Area was a designated competition venue for the World Winged Flight Alliance and was not a place with the World Cultural Heritage Wulingyuan Scenic Area. The staff said: "It has been raining heavily these days. It was originally a karst landform. It is very difficult to search and rescue, because the Zhangjiajie Tianmen Mountain Scenic Area is the designated venue for the Winged Flight World Championships. Winged flight activities are prohibited from the core scenic spot of Wulingyuan. "

　　A friend of the lost girl Xiao Liu told the media that Xiao Liu has rich experience in flying at high altitude, and they were very surprised by the loss of contact. Xiao Liu ’s friend said: “Everyone is a folk skydiving enthusiast. She is still a college student. What she is doing is a commercial event, a program shooting. She is already a“ big god ”in the circle, and the technology is very good. I do n’t know what happened to her this time. "

　　According to media reports, Xiao Liu has been in contact with the wing suit for nearly 3 years, and he is very savvy and very focused on the sport. According to the grades assigned by the American Parachute Association, the difficulty of ABCD increases in sequence, "A certificate requires at least 25 jumps, B certificate requires at least 50 jumps, and C certificate requires 200 jumps. Xiao Liu holds the certificate level C, and her actual ability has reached Level D is equivalent to the level of the coach. "

　　Sheng Guangqiang, a paragliding coach who has participated in low-flying wing activities in Tianmen Mountain many times, told reporters that the flying wing movement is divided into two types: high-flying and low-flying. They look similarly dressed and have completely different risks. Sheng Guangqiang said: "The most played is the high-altitude wing suit. The so-called high-altitude wing suit refers to a person carrying a main umbrella and a spare umbrella from the plane or other places, such as a hot air balloon. Jump down when the height is about 4000 meters, and open the parachute when it is about 1000 meters or more, that is, between 4000 meters and 1000 meters, they are flying in wing suits, and finally open the parachute to land. The low altitude wing suit is only for one person. Parachute, no spare parachute, jump from a building or other place, such as a cliff above 150 meters in height, or a helicopter of hundreds of meters. The two are completely different concepts, because the low-altitude wing is equipped with an open parachute There is a difference between the height of the high-altitude wing and the high-altitude wing. It must be opened at about 1000 meters. It has a mandatory umbrella mechanism, while the low-altitude wing is installed. As long as the parachute jumper does not open it, there is no other way to open the parachute, so The risk of low-altitude wing loading is relatively high. "

　　Sheng Guangqiang said that the country successfully skipped Tianmen Mountain with a low-altitude wing, including no more than 4 people including him. He would not choose to use high-altitude wing equipment from more than 2,000 meters and there is a mountain below because of different environments and different equipment. Under the high altitude and low altitude wings, the risk factors are completely different. The high altitude wingskin movement has sufficient time to respond. Even if the parachutist is unconscious, it will automatically open the parachute at a certain height. For low-altitude flight, the reaction time of the pilot is generally only 10 to 30 seconds, and the parachute must be opened quickly. Sheng Guangqiang said: "After skydivers are very proficient in learning high-altitude wing-fitting, they have the opportunity to learn low-altitude skydiving, and then the low-altitude wing-fitting movement. At present, most of the domestic players are playing high-altitude wing-wear. I know that the current domestic There are only 4 people who can play at low altitude. The high-altitude wing must be trained in an open place above 2000 meters above the ground. You can not jump in a place with mountains and obstacles underneath, because you are already at 2000 meters. Above, if there is a 1500-meter mountain underneath, the relative height is only 500 meters. This is not high-altitude, but completely low-altitude. If you use high-altitude wing to play low-altitude wing items, the risk factor will increase a lot. In addition, the time required for the high-altitude wing to open the umbrella is different from that for the low-altitude wing, because the standby umbrella is different, it takes a long time, and the low-altitude wing needs to open the umbrella quickly. "

　　Extreme sports enthusiasts like to challenge the Tianmen Mountain Scenic Area in Zhangjiajie. Extreme sports such as winged flying and parkour are often performed here. According to reports, Xiao Liu has been carrying video equipment with him. What exactly caused the loss of contact? The ultimate cause may require a video memory card to be clear.