A champion Wingsuit Flyer who was shown in a BBC documentary called The Boy Who Fly died after he was seriously injured in a leap on the weekend.
Liam Byrne, 24, participated in a high risk jump at almost 8,000 feet above sea level in the Swiss Alps on Saturday when the tragedy struck, according to De TelegraafWith reference to the local police.
Byrne, from Scotland, wore a wingsuit, a specialized venhoop syringe jumpsuit with membranes between the arms, the body and legs through which a diver can glide into the air.
Wingsuit -Duiker Liam Byrne in action and smiling in a collage. He died on Saturday. (Instagram @liamyrne0)
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He was one of the three pilots who launched a jump from Gitschen, a mountain with a view of Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.
Byrne “, however, dedicated from his intended course shortly after taking off for unknown reasons and crashed into a rocky access,” the police said. “He suffered fatal injuries.”
Byrne, a British champion in the sported sport, was an experienced flyer with more than 4,000 jumps to his name, according to the outlet. His Instagram account also mentions him as a Skydiving instructor, Wingsuit Coach and Basic (Building, Antenna, Span and Earth) Jumper.
In the documentary produced by BBC, filmmakers follow Byrne’s trip to Champion Flyer.
Byrne told The documentary: “I think I was about 13 when I told my father that I wanted to learn to fly like a bird.”
Byrne is getting ready to jump, left, a man in a wingsuit on Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, the Chinese province of Hunan, who shows his entire suit. (Instagram @liabyrne0; Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty images.)
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He said that an office job scared him much more than the fear of dying from a basic or wingsuit -jump. He insisted that good preparation was central to all his jumps and kept him safe and acknowledged that the risky sport worried his family.
By the age of 12, Byrne climbed the Berg Kilimanjaro, became a recognized paraglider at the age of 14, completed his first skydive at 16 and, according to the BBC, flew into a wing suit with 18.
Byrne’s family released a statement in which he was praised and said that the sport was “more than just a sensation for Liam – it was freedom. It was where he lived the most.”
“We would like to remember Liam, not only for the way he left this world, but also for how he lived in it,” the statement is partly.
Liam Byrne in the last Wingsuit -jump he placed on Instagram. (Instagram @liamyrne0)
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“Liam was fearless, not necessarily because he was not afraid, but because he refused to stop the fear. He chased life in a way that most of us dreamed of and he rose.”
The statement continued: “He inspired us all and made life better with his daring spirit and friendly heart. We will miss Liam’s wild energy and contagious smile. Although he has now flew out of our reach, he will always be with us.”
There have been a number of Wingsuit-related deaths in the US, including an incident in January 2024 in which Gregory Coates, 36, died in Colorado after both his primary and reserve parachutes could not be implemented.
In September Jonathan Bizilia, 27, died of Alabama in a jump in Utah.
