Shortly after their release, the pilot of the aircraft, a 64-year-old named Alain C, made a rapid descent to catch up with the skydivers who were gliding in their wingsuits. Unfortunately, this maneuver brought the plane's left wing dangerously close to Galy, resulting in his decapitation. This devastating incident was revealed during the pilot's recent manslaughter trial.
From The New York Post:
The victim’s emergency parachute then opened, and his lifeless body landed in a field.
In the wake of Galy’s death, the pilot was charged with manslaughter, with prosecutors arguing that his errors caused the horrific accident.
Alain defended himself in court, insisting that he had done nothing wrong and that Galy “did not follow the expected course and should never have been on that course.”
According to the pilot, Galy, an engineer and skydiver with 226 jumps under his belt, was parallel to the plane, and Alain thought he was “further south.”
“I think my flight path made sense,” the pilot testified. “This has been the tragedy of my life but I am not at fault.”
Alain, who worked for a local skydiving school, admitted on the stand that he had not briefed the skydivers and wingsuiters about the jump.
He then lost track of the wingsuit jumpers and assumed he was clear of them — even though he acknowledged that “they don’t descend much and can be in conflict with the aircraft.”
It also emerged during the trial that the 64-year-old aviator was flying with an invalid license after he violated some restrictions stemming from an unspecified medical condition.
Prosecutor Jeanne Regagngon argued that Galy “was the only one who obeyed the rules without negligence” on the day of the ill-fated jump.
It appears that this pilot is attempting to shift the blame for this horrific incident onto the deceased, which is morally reprehensible.
The reality is that Alain was flying with an invalid license, and considering he deceived about this, all of his other testimony against the victim appears to be unreliable.
