NEW YORK POST – An experienced wingsuit flyer who starred in a documentary about his journey to become a champion skydiver has died during a jump from 8,000 feet.
Liam Byrne, 24, plunged to his death on the Gitschen mountain in the Swiss Alps on Saturday in his latest jump in the specialized webbed suit, the BBC reported.
Byrne, from Aberdeenshire in Scotland, had completed more than 4,000 jumps in his 10 years as a wingsuit flyer and was featured in a recent BBC documentary called “The Boy Who Can Fly.”
He had jumped with two others on Saturday when he died, Uri Cantonal Police said while calling for witnesses to come forward, the Telegraph reported.
“One of the jumpers, a 24-year-old man from Great Britain, deviated from his intended course shortly after take-off for reasons still unknown and crashed into a rocky outcrop at approximately 2,100 metres [6,900ft] above sea level. He suffered fatal injuries,” a police spokesman said.
Byrne previously said that no matter how safe he tried to be, he knew how much his family worried about him skydiving.
“I have buried him 10 times already in my head,” Byrne’s father said in the BBC documentary, aired November 8 last year …
