China News Agency, Changsha, May 19 (Reporter Deng Xia) Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, issued a notice on the evening of the 18th that a female winged pilot who had lost contact in the scenic spot was found in a jungle that day. After on-site verification, the missing person had no vital signs, and his parachute was not opened.
On May 12, a cultural media company in Beijing shot a short documentary of extreme sports in the Tianmen Mountain Scenic Area in Zhangjiajie. At 11:19 a.m. on the same day, the two winged pilots who participated in the shooting took off from a helicopter with a flying height of about 2500 meters and carried out a high-altitude winged flight. One of the female winged pilots lost contact due to deviation from the planned route during the flight. . The lost couple had been trained in systematic wing-mounted flight abroad and had hundreds of wing-mounted flights and high-altitude skydiving experience.
After the incident, the local government quickly launched emergency search and rescue, organized a fire brigade, Zhangjiajie Blue Sky Rescue Team, a number of foreign professional rescue teams that came to support, and local villagers familiar with the terrain to form a joint search and rescue team. Professional equipment such as imaging continues to conduct aerial observations, and multiple groups of personnel divide the area to perform large-area ground searches. The search and rescue process is extremely difficult due to various factors such as the inability to accurately locate the search target, the steep and complex terrain in the search area, the dense vegetation, and the rain and fog weather during the period.
On the morning of May 18, the search and rescue team received a report from the local villagers during the search process, and found a suspected missing person in a dense forest in the unmanned area below the north side of Yuhu Peak in Tianmen Mountain. Upon learning of the situation, the search and rescue team rushed to the scene immediately, and after verification on the spot, it was determined to be the lost female winged pilot. The location where the body was found was about 900 meters above sea level, a straight-line distance of about 2,000 meters from its take-off position on the air helicopter, and a relative drop of about 1600 meters. At present, the search and rescue work has been completed, and the related aftermath is in order.
Wing-mounted flight is also called short-range sky gliding. Athletes in wing-mounted flight fly down from high places and carry out unpowered flights in close proximity to high-altitude buildings or natural landscapes. In 2012, the World Wingsuit Alliance and other co-founded the world ’s first wingsuit flight racing competition in Tianmen Mountain, Zhangjiajie-the Wingsuit Flight World Championships, which has been held for eight consecutive times, attracting dozens from more than ten countries around the world The world's top wing-mounted flight athletes participated. (Finish)