Re: [dragon2] Eiffel Tower fatality
This is a babelfish translation from
http://news.tf1.fr/...e/0,,3219783,00.html
which I edited slightly
A 31 year old Norwegian died Monday evening while jumping with parachute, without authorization, from the Eiffel Tower. The police force opened an investigation. Previously, four Norwegians had been intercepted towards 15h00 by the service of safety of the Montparnasse Tower where two of them were on the point of jumping in parachute of the top of the building from altitude of 210 meters.
Both "bases-jumpers" (jumping in parachute from a fixed, real point or natural feature) wanted to make an advertising film for a brand of clothing for young people.
In the Eiffel Tower incident, three Norwegians, most probably of the same group, let themselves lock up in the Tower, according to the police force, and one jumped in parachute, around 22h00, from the second level (115 meters). A spokesman of the Eiffel Tower told Agence France Press that the monument closes only at midnight and that at the time of the jump, the public was normally admited there. The victim fell onto the structures of the first level of the famous monument and died on impact, according to the police force. His/her two comrades were questionned by the local police (?) which took over the investigation.
The accidents resulting from a jump with parachute or delta wing from the Eiffel Tower, are very rare and deaths occuring are there are out of desperation.
First base-jumper, Franz Reichelt, died while jumping on February 4, 1912 from the first level with a parachute of his own creation. His five seconds jump had been filmed.
The rest is about security on Eiffel tower
