Philippe had a clean exit.
He had a clean flight.
He flew in direction of the main road.
He didn't pull his pilot chute.
He impacted full speed, on the main road, in the dense traffic.

Philippe is dead on impact.
People are under shock.
Mostly the lady who had to violently pull not to drive on his body.
Or the two shaken up fire fighters with ten years of duty, who described to me the action of going for a heart massage, and the dread of feeling the concrete directly through Philippe's thorax... Or the sensation of taking him out of his wingsuit, feeling every bone of him, shattered every 2 cm.
That. And more.

That is not intended to be a trial against Philippe. Who was a delightful human being I am sure of that.
This is intended to be a warning against dangerous behaviours that go against all base jumping ethics. That are killing the sport and have risked to kill inocent lives all together.
That is written to try waking up people from the denial illness that is spreading out without control in this activity.

As it has been stated before, Philippe has been warned multiple time for his impreparation by many experienced jumpers.
Last occurence was on a long facebook debate 3 weeks ago. (On the french PIAF page).

Philippe was around 90 basejumps old in 4 years, almost all slick and slider off, when he decided to jump a Freak wingsuit.
He declared 200 wingsuit skydives.
He has been admitted to a base jumping wingsuiting course in June this year and began to jump his freak in the mountains.
He jumped in Norway, Brento and Lauterbrunnen, allegedly totalizing 40 recent WS flights.

Then he arrived in Magland a few days ago and had his accident on his second day (and flight) from here (tête Louis Philippe).

Magland is much more technical than what he was used to. It is alltogether shorter, more positive, the terrain is visually present and civilisation is right there under. (Main road, highway, train line plus electrical cables)

In the precipitation Philippe most likely didn't find his pilote chute, panicked, never found it, and hit the ground.

There is much more to say on all that story. Like for example how Saturday was the local annual feast in Magland, and our base jump association was to take a stand there, to meet the citizens and inform on all the energy we are putting on making the sport safer and the cohabitation neater...

Since the accident implies the public area, the Prefect has been informed. The legal consequences are yet to be known.

In one year 3 men died here in Magland.
All three people didn't listen to the warnings of the experienced jumpers.

Please listen to the warnings.
Experienced jumpers have seen people die.
They recognise the patterns.
The patterns don't lie.

Please inform yourself with local jumpers on dangers and flight trajectories for each new exit. Read the website, talk to people. Learn the ethics.

Surround yourself with healthy OG jumpers.

Remember that going in will have heavy consequences on your family, your friends, the rescue team, the sport, etc.

Rest in peace Philippe. We send our most sincere condolences to your friends, wife and family.

We are sad.