Citation

Lasczkowski G, Hasenfuss S, Verhoff M, Weiler G. Forensic Sci. Int. 2002; 125(2-3): 250-253.

Affiliation

Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Giessen, Frankfurter Str. 58, D-35392, Germany. gabriele.lasczkowski@forens.med.uni-giessen.de

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11909672

Abstract

A Pilatus PC 6 "Turbo-Porter" crashed after having dropped skydivers. The interdisciplinary investigation of the crash revealed that the automated reserve opening device "Student-CYPRES" which the passenger wore on his parachute system had been set off during the landing approach. The parachute pulled the passenger out of the airplane. Subsequently the parachute got caught at the horizontal tail, and its wearer was instantly killed by internal decapitation. The airplane crashed because of its damaged horizontal tail, and the pilot lost his life.

Language: en