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Fatalities from Wingsuit flying have occurred almost from the inception of the sport. Below are listed the most notable of these. ==List of fatalities due to wingsuit flying== ;16 September 1963: Stunt parachutist Gerard Masselin jumped from a biplane showing his wingsuit to the camera and was killed after his parachute failed to open. ;13 April 1998: French skydiver Gayardon died while testing a new modification to his parachute container in Hawaii; his death was attributed to a rigging error that was part of a new modification, rather than a flaw in the suit's design. Sixth months prior, on 31 October 1997, he had held a press conference showing off the wingsuit—which he claimed had an unparalleled record of safety and performance. ;5 October 2003: Dwain Weston, an Australian skydiver and holder of the 2002 BASE-jumping world title, died after hitting a railing on the Royal Gorge Bridge near Cañon City, Colorado. ;April 2010: Geoffrey Robson died during a wingsuit BASE jump from Stellenbosch, South Africa. He was a PhD candidate at ETH Zürich working on the mathematical modelling of the aerodynamic characteristics of wingsuits. He was described by a former professor as "very careful (taking ) the sport seriously".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Base jumper was very careful )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Geoffrey Robson )〕 ;2011: Ten people died in Wingsuit BASE jumping accidents. ;23 June 2012: Hervé le Gallou, who was, along with Dave McDonnell, one of the first persons to jump from the Burj Khalifa, died wing-suiting on Grande Tête de l'Obiou in the French Alps. ;14 August 2013: Mark Sutton, a British stuntman who had parachuted into the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony as a James Bond character, was killed when he hit a ridge while wingsuit BASE-jumping near Martigny, Switzerland. He was participating in an event sponsored by Epic TV, and a wingsuit expert stated that he appeared to have miscalculated the gradient of the ground he was flying over. ;23 August 2013: Álvaro Bultó, a Spanish wing-suit flier, died after a wing-suit BASE-jump in Switzerland. 〔(Alvaro Bulto dies while skydiving ) Global Post website〕 ;8 October 2013: Hungarian Viktor Kováts died in rural China during a trial flight for the world BASE-jump championships.〔Tomlinson, Simon (9 October 2013). ("Victor Kovats, Hungarian Wingsuit Flyer, Dies in Accident" ). ''Daily Mail''.〕 ;29 March 2014: Three experienced wing-suit flyers: New Zealander Dan Vicary (33), Frenchman Ludovic Woerth (34), and American Brian Drake (33), jumped from a helicopter over the Lütschental area near Bern, Switzerland. They had planned to land in the valley, but took a wrong turn, flew over the wrong ridge, and crashed into an Alpine pasture. Vicary and Woerth were found dead; Drake died four days later in a hospital.〔(''US Wingsuit Flyer Dies After Weekend Accident'' ); 3 April 2014; The Local; retrieved April 2014.〕〔("Swiss Wingsuit Crash Claims Third Victim" ). 3 News New Zealand. Retrieved April 2014.〕 ;6 June 2014: Darío Barrio, a famous Spanish TV Chef, owner of the Madrid restaurant Dassa Bassa and an experienced wing-suit flier, died in an accident while participating in the International Air Festival at Segura de la Sierra in Jaén, a province in southern Spain. Darío, aged 42, was supposed to fly over an old castle but, for unknown reasons, crashed into the cliff where the castle is located.〔("Dario Barrio dead: Spanish TV chef killed in base jumping wingsuit crash" ). The Independent.〕 ;2 September 2014: Alex Duncan, a 26-year-old Australian from Manly, Sydney, died after crashing into a mountain during a jump in the Swiss Alps. He was new to the international wing-suit scene but had been involved with extreme sports since he was a teenager.〔Koziol, Michael; Zielinski, Caroline (4 September 2014). ("Extreme sports star Alex Duncan killed while wingsuit flying in Swiss Alps" ). ''Sydney Morning Herald''.〕 ;14 January 2015: Josh Sheppard, a 31-year-old experienced wing-suit flier and skydiver with more than 3,000 jumps, died when his parachute failed to open after jumping from a Michigan TV tower . ;16 May 2015: Dean Potter, 43, and Graham Hunt, 29, died during a wing-suit flight from Taft Point, in Yosemite National Park. ;3 July 2015: Jhonathan "The Birdman" Florez, a 2013 wingsuiting world champion, died after falling from the exit point at Engelberg, Switzerland.〔("Jhonathan Flórez, el 'hombre pájaro, ensayaba un nuevo traje de salto cuando murió", from ElHeraldo.com )〕 ;10 July 2015: Damian Hrdlicka died while wing-suit flying in Switzerland, it is believed he struck a tree while flying off Gitschen Peak. He was a highly experienced skydiver and competed internationally in sky surfing competitions. He had 155 BASE jumps, 120 of which were in wing-suits. ;1 October 2015: American Johnny Strange, 23, crashed into the ground and died after jumping from a 2,000-metre summit in the Swiss canton of Uri. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of fatalities due to wingsuit flying」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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