Hugues Orlianges, wingsuit flight specialist, was killed on Saturday in an accident during a jump from Piton des Neiges (Reunion).
The experienced 33-year-old sportsman had a hundred flights with this type of combination to his credit.
He practiced the discipline all over the world and knew the Reunionese sites perfectly, reports La Première.
He had been living there for four months.
A similar jump ten days before
The one who also practiced paragliding and taught skydiving had also made a wingsuit jump without incident from the highest point of the island to Cilaos (Reunion) on March 9.
Hugues Orlianges posted the impressive images of this outing on Facebook.
Ten days later, the same flight was fatal to him.
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The extreme sports fan hit a rocky terrain after only a few minutes of flight.
His body was found 700 m below the point from which he had started his jump.
Only about twenty people practice wingsuit flight in Reunion.
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