Wingsuit champion Liam Byrne dies after having crashed into a rocky outcrop during the jump to the Swiss Alps

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A leaflet from the champion combination which appeared in a BBC documentary entitled The Boy Who Can Fly died after being seriously injured during a jump during the weekend.
Liam Byrne, 24, participated in a high risk jump at nearly 8,000 feet above sea level in the Swiss Alps on Saturday when the tragedy struck The telegraphquoting local police.
Byrne, from Scotland, wore a combination, a specialized combination with webbed sleeves with membranes between the arms, the body and the legs which allows a diver to slide the flight in the air.

The Liam Byrne combination diver in action and smiling in a collage. He died on Saturday. (Instagram @ liambyrne0)
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He was one of the three combination pilots that launched a jump from Gitschen, a mountain overlooking Lac Lucerne in Switzerland.
However, Byrne “has dismissed its course scheduled shortly after takeoff for reasons still unknown and crashed in a rocky outcrop,” said the police. “He suffered deadly injuries.”
Byrne, a British champion in sport fueled by adrenaline, was an experienced leaflet with more than 4,000 jumps in his name, depending on the point of sale. His Instagram account also lists him as an instructor of parachuting, the combination coach and the base (building, antenna, span and earth).
In the BBC product documentary, the filmmakers follow Byrne’s trip to Flyer champion.
Byrne said the documentary: “I think I was about 13 years old when I told my father that I wanted to learn to fly like a bird.”

Byrne preparing to jump, on the left, a man in a combination of the Tianmen mountain in Zhangjiajie, the province of Hunan in China, showing his complete costume. (Instagram @ liambyrne0; Wang Zhao / AFP via Getty Images.)
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He said that a office work had frightened him much more than the fear of dying of a base or a combination jump. He insisted that the right preparation was at the heart of all his jumps and kept it safe and recognized that high -risk sport was worried about his family.
Byrne climbed on Mount Kilimandjaro at the age of 12, became an approved paraglider at 14, finished her first parachuting at 16 and flew in an 18 -year -old combination, according to the BBC.
Byrne’s family published a statement praising him and saying that sport was “more than a simple thrill for Liam – it was freedom. It was there that he felt the most alive”.
“We would like to remember Liam not only for the way he left this world, but for the way he lived there,” said the declaration.

Liam Byrne in the last jump to Wingsuit he posted on Instagram. (Instagram @ liambyrne0)
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“Liam was intrepid, not necessarily because he was not afraid but because he refused to let fear hold it. He chased life in a way in which most of us dream only of it and he has skyrocketed.”
The declaration continued: “He inspired us all and made life better with his daring spirit and his nice heart. We will miss the wild energy. Although he has now stolen out of our reach, he will always be with us.”
In the United States, a certain number of deaths linked to the combination of the combination were linked to combinations to the combination of the combination of the combination of the combination of the combination, including a January 2024 incident in which Gregory Coates, 36, died in Colorado after his primary and reserve parachutes were not deployed.
In September, Jonathan Bizilia, 27, from Alabama died in a Utah jump.