The production company Adventure Line Productions was condemned on appeal for "inexcusable fault" by the court of Versailles following the death of cameraman Laurent Sbasnik, in March 2015. He is one of the ten victims of the helicopter crash on the shooting of the adventure game "Dropped".
It was the greatest drama of French reality television.
In March 2015, two helicopters crashed in Argentina on the set of the French version of the adventure show
Dropped
, killing 10 people among the show's participants and technical teams.
The court of Versailles delivered its verdict on Thursday in the appeal judgment of the company Adventure Line Productions (ALP), which also produces
Koh Lanta,
in the lawsuit concerning the death of cameraman and director Laurent Sbasnik.
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Three candidates, two pilots, five members of the production
The company was condemned for "inexcusable fault".
ALP will have to pay 120,000 euros in damages to the family of the cameraman and director who died on the set of
Dropped
, in the province of Rioja in Argentina.
Laurent Sbasnik is one of the ten people killed in a helicopter crash: the navigator Florence Arthaud, the swimmer Camille Muffat, the boxer Alexis Vastine, the pilots Juan Carlos Castillo and César Roberto Abate, the journalist Lucie Mei-Dalby, the engineer sound Édouard Gilles, cameraman Brice Guilbert and project manager Volodia Guinard.