New drama in the mountains this summer: a 28-year-old man was killed at the end of the day on Monday in a hang-gliding fall, near the town of Bonneville (Haute-Savoie), according to the emergency services which confirm information from Dauphiné Libéré .
The youngster, who is not from the region, fell shortly after taking off, around 6.30 p.m., at the point of Andey. The emergency services found him dead on the spot.
A technical error
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. According to the first elements of the investigation, entrusted to the Chamonix high mountain gendarmerie platoon (PGHM), a wing of the hang-glider would have caught the tree while it was trying to land on this runway considered "very short". The sixty-year-old would have "plunged and fallen twenty meters," said mountain rescue services, who were alerted by witnesses to the accident. He could not be resuscitated despite the intervention of the firefighters.
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