Vincent Reffet.
A free-flying world champion and avid BASE jumper (involving leaps from towering static objects rather than from a plane), Mr. Reffet had undertaken breathtaking feats including a record-breaking jump of over 2,700 feet from a platform above the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, and a midair dive into a plane from a 13,000-foot mountain in Switzerland.
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In Dubai, the group worked with XDubai, an extreme-sports brand that has been endorsed by the crown prince. In one stunt that went viral, the pair flew with jetpacks above Dubai beside an Emirates Airbus 380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft.
He was 36 years old. According to the NYT obit, he died in a training accident.
Ben Watkins. My feelings about reality TV are well known, but nobody should have that hard a life, and nobody should die at 14.
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