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Pilot Sentenced For Decapitating Skydiver Who Just Jumped Out Of His Plane
Pilot Sentenced For Decapitating Skydiver Who Just Jumped Out Of His Plane-March 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:13:47

Wingsuit flyer Niccolo Porcella of USA jumps off a mountain during the 7th World Wingsuit Championship at Tianmen Mountain on September 15. 2018 Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, China

was found guilty of after he a who had just jumped out of his according to The . The Montauban gave the prison sentence for the July 2018 accidental of 40-year-old Nicolas Glay.

He was also found guilty of operating without a valid aeronautical license and was banned from for one year. Immediately after the drop at 13,000 feet, the pilot – who hasn’t been named – began to descend toward the tarmac, , a French news outlet, reports. However, before the out of the plane there was apparently very little communication between him andabout where the plane would be going in the air.

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The incident happened in July 2018 over the small town of Bouloc, near the city of Toulouse in the country’s southwest, according to an investigation report published by the French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety in 2020.

“A collision occurred between the first wingsuit skydiver and the aircraft’s left wing, a few seconds after he jumped out of the plane. The wingsuit skydiver died upon impact,” the report said.

The Swiss-made Pilatus PC-6 aircraft was carrying 10 skydivers and one coach, and the 40-year-old male victim was the first to jump out of the plane, according to the report.

The pilot thought he had moved away from the skydivers’ descent path after doing a left turn, but only seconds later, he felt a heavy shock “and realized that he had hit one of the skydivers,” the report said.

The second skydiver was wearing a camera, which filmed the whole process of the crash, according to the report.

A lawyer for the victim’s relatives said the incident had “a lot of recklessness or negligence.” The Midi-Pyrénées Association, which employed the pilot, was fined €20,000 ($22,000), but half of the money has since been suspended, Le Parisien reports.

Since the 2018 incident, security measures have been bolsters and briefings between have become mandatory, the French outlet reports.

Between 2015 and 2020, 13 people have been killed during wingsuit skydiving incidents, according to CNN.

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