We offer our sincere condolences to Federico’s family, colleagues and flying friends. There are several Italian TV news reports online, including scenes from the rescue at Retevenata.Īnd, with edited footage showing the accident itself that some pilots might find distressing, Italia News. There are a lot of hang gliding enthusiasts and it is definitely worth a try if you would like to experience what it’s like to have. The pilot controls the course of the flight by means of shifting body weight. He was Italian rigid champion in 2018 and had placed second in 2016. Hang gliding is the recreational activity of flying in the air by hanging from a very small aircraft that does not have an engine, made up of a frame covered in extremely light fabric. He had flown several triangles in Bassano this season, from 79km to 132km. He unhooked to turn it back on and forgot to hook back on.”īaratto was an experienced and current rigid pilot, logging flights on his Atos VQ Race on XContest.
Paris - Brussels - Montreal - Genve - Luxembourg. He will have ensured he and his passenger were clipped in, then realised the camera was off. Hang glider accident Pour agences de traduction et traducteurs - For translation agencies & translators. The only answer I can give is that something abnormal has happened and the only anomaly I see is the camera. His friend and colleague Daniele Matteazzi was shocked at what had happened, and speculated on how it could have happened. He had fallen from “several hundred metres” according to La Notizia, a local news website, and had died on impact.īaratto had been a hang gliding instructor since 1994 and a qualified tandem pilot for 22 years. She was later admitted to hospital but it is reported she did not suffer any serious injuries.īaratto’s body was found at about 5.30pm. A mountain rescue technician was lowered into the forest canopy by winch and secured the woman passenger, later lowering her to the ground where a medical team was waiting. The 39-year-old from Remuera, Auckland, was a novice flier who had recently qualified for his.
Seconds after that he dropped, leaving the pilotless hang glider and its passenger to crash into the forested hillside moments later.Įmergency crews were called to the scene at about 2.30pm, and a mountain rescue helicopter was despatched from Treviso. Bradley Mark Cameron died on Friday after crashing into a cliff at Karioitahi Beach, near Waiuku. Within seconds he slipped from the prone position to hanging from the base bar by his arms. He had not clipped in.Īccording to local news reports, Baratto launched with a 28-year-old non-pilot female passenger shortly before 2.30pm. Federico Baratto, an Italian hang gliding champion and professional tandem hang glider pilot has died in a tragic accident in the Italian Alps.įederico, 51, died on Saturday 8 May after falling from his tandem hang glider shortly after launching in Borso del Grappa, Italy.
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