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Incident
- Incident category:
- BASE Fatality
- ID:
- BFL108
- Object:
- Earth
- Cause of death:
- Object strike under canopy
- Date:
- 04. 01. 2007
- Time:
- —
- Exit point:
- France › Benevise › Benevise
- Exit type:
- Vertical
Personal
- Name:
- Rene Duriaux
- Gender:
- Male
- Nationality:
- French
- Age:
- 59
- Experience:
- —
Equipment & Setup
- Canopy:
- —
- Canopy size:
- —
- Container:
- —
- Suit:
- Everyday Clothing worn › Slick
- Packing:
- Slider Down-Off
- Deployment:
- BOC
Circumstances
- Weather:
- Winds light and variable
- Factors:
- Extracted Pilot Chute too late Emergency low pull 180 Offheading Clipped ledge after exiting Line twists
Description
Details here are few, but it's being reported Rene was found in his car deceased at a remote cliff site by French Police. One of his legs were severely injured and his cause of death, it was determined, was heart failure. At the time he was found no gear was in evidence and it wasn't known if Renn was injured on his approach to the launch point or during a jump. Since the time of the discovery of his body his gear has been found at the bottom of the cliff. It appears now Renn was somehow injured during the jump but had managed to get back to his car where he died.
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