Isère: Two Dead in a Hang Glider Accident at the Icare Cup
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franceinfo.frAn experienced pilot and his passenger were killed on Sunday 20 September in the morning as soon as the two-seater took off. An investigation was opened by the Grenoble Public Prosecutor's Office and the festival organizers suspended the event.
A tandem hang glider accident claimed the lives of two people this Sunday morning at the Icare Cup Air Sports Festival in Isère Two people died in an accident in Isère.
"The entire community is bereaved. Two deltist pilots in tandem have just lost their lives on a morning flight," said the organizers of this event dedicated to paragliders, hang gliders, paramotors, ULM and other balloons, which takes place every year in Saint-Hilaire and Lumbin, near Grenoble. "The Peloton de gendarmerie de haute montagne (PGHM) was engaged this Sunday morning at about 8.15 a.m. on a hang glider accident in the framework of the…
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Two tandem pilots died on Sunday morning in a hang glider accident that took off at the Icare Cup in Saint-Hilaire near Grenoble.
A fatal accident occurred on Sunday, September 20, at about 8 a.m., during the leisure flight. Other activities planned for the last day of the Icare Cup are currently suspended.
The rendezvous of free flight lovers, near Grenoble, stopped net Sunday morning after the fall of a two-seated hang glider. The seasoned pilot and... Read more The Icare Cup bereaved by a hang glider crash at take-off appeared first on Le Singulier.
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