Nationality Austria Name Hannes Arch Aircraft Zivko Edge 540 | Best position 1st (2008) First race 2007 Role Aerobatic Pilot | |
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Born September 22, 1967 ( 1967-09-22 ) Movies 2008 Red Bull Air Race World Championship Similar People Paul Bonhomme, Nigel Lamb, Matthias Dolderer, Matt Hall, Pete McLeod Profiles | ||
Gopro never a dull moment with hannes arch
Hannes Arch (22 September 1967 – 8 September 2016) was an Austrian pilot who competed in the 2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series season following a round of qualification held in Phoenix, Arizona during October 2006. He joined 13 other pilots, 2 of them also receiving entry after the Arizona qualifying. Arch won the World Championship in the 2008 season.
Contents
- Gopro never a dull moment with hannes arch
- Pilot hannes arch talks development focus season 2 ep 5
- Early life
- Death
- Red Bull X Alps
- Red Bull Air Race
- References
Pilot hannes arch talks development focus season 2 ep 5
Early life
Hannes Arch was born in Leoben, Austria in 1967.
Death
Hannes Arch died on 8 September 2016 in a helicopter crash in the Austrian Alps during a helicopter supply flight to a remote mountain lodge, the Elberfelder Hut. Shortly after takeoff at about 9:15pm, the helicopter struck the side of a mountain. Arch died of a broken neck, a passenger survived the crash. Arch was accompanied in the helicopter by the mountain hut's owner Reinhard B., a 62-year-old German who ran the Alpine hut which Arch had delivered supplies to. The German was seriously injured in the crash but survived.
Hannes Arch was buried at a funeral attended by his closest relatives in Troifaiach on 13 September 2016.
He is survived by his girlfriend, Miriam.
Red Bull X-Alps
Hannes made his mark on the paragliding scene inventing the grueling international competition known as the Red Bull X-Alps, taking the world’s most elite paragliding pilots across the Alps from Austria to Monaco entirely by air or foot in a race against the clock. The event quickly gained a reputation as one of the world’s toughest adventure races.
Red Bull Air Race
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