The track of a pilot error is privileged. A 28-year-old man was killed on Monday at the end of the day in a hang-gliding fall in the town of Bonneville (Haute-Savoie), we learned Tuesday from mountain rescue, confirming information from Dauphiné Libéré .
Shortly after takeoff
The youngster, who is not from the region, fell shortly after taking off, around 6.30 p.m., at the point of Andey. On site, the emergency services found him dead. According to the first elements of the investigation carried out by the high mountain gendarmerie platoon of Annecy, the victim would have made a technical error. "It is not linked to a hardware problem," said the PGHM.
At the beginning of July, a 63-year-old man had already been killed in a hang-gliding accident on a landing area in Haute-Savoie at the foot of the Mont-Blanc massif after having hung a tree.
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