Fatality...

[pyro]

Has anyone seen this?

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/4497167/detail.html

Any other information?

[Craig]

Can anyone give a clue (no names, until public please) who it is? The guy who liked to do the handstand exits and occasionally dressed like James Bond was sponsored by a Norwegian subsidiary of an international brand. It wasn't him was it?

Edit: it wasn't who I thought it was

BSBD

[nitr8]

Eiffel tower stunt kills parachutist

Jon Henley in Paris
Wednesday May 18, 2005
The Guardian

A Norwegian parachutist died after jumping from the second floor of the Eiffel tower when his chute snagged on the monument's superstructure, Paris police said yesterday.

A police spokesman said the 31-year-old man, who was not named, was wearing a helmet containing a small video camera, trying to film his stunt for a TV commercial advertising a brand of Norwegian clothing.

The spokesman said the man died at about 10pm on Monday after jumping from the tower's 115-metre high (350ft) second floor. "His parachute got caught, he became detached from it, and he hit the first floor more than 50 metres below," the officer said. "He died instantly."

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Police sources said two more Norwegians had been intercepted by private security guards earlier on Monday as they were making their way to the top of the 210-metre Montparnasse tower on the other side of Paris, apparently to prepare for a similar leap.

The two "base-jumpers" - parachutists who jump from a fixed point rather than an aircraft - were being questioned, as were another two who had climbed the Eiffel tower with the jumper who later died, the police spokesman said.

A spokeswoman for SNTE, the company that runs the tower, said security measures meant very few parachutists or hang-gliders managed to launch themselves from the monument, which opened for the 1889 World Fair.

The first, an Austrian named Franz Reichelt, jumped from the first floor with a parachute of his own invention in 1912. He did not survive.

Most of those who leap from the tower are suicides, but the SNTE spokeswoman declined to say exactly how many jumped to their death. "Some years it's two or three, some years none at all. We don't talk about it because we don't want to give people ideas."

from:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1486262,00.html

[PerFlare]

Hi,

No it is not him. Dark times for the Norwegians ... dark times it is.

PerFlare

[bjarmann]

It was Olov Axel Kappfjell. Confirmed in norwegian newspapers.

http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=277689

[721]

Hi,
This is Greg from Hungary.
It's a sad news..:(
We were thogether in Brento and Campione with PerFlare, Martin and a third guy. (Do you remember?You guys film my accident in Campione with another crazy hungarian) Tell me it wasn't him (the third guy, I forgot his name)!

[PerFlare]

Hi Creg,

The third guy was Patrik, no it is not him.

Glad to see that you are alive and kicking. Hope to meet you guys again someday.

Best of times!

PerFlare

[diesel]

Very sad news indeed... The Eiffel tower is very difficult to BASE and from what I could read in the news, he killed himself when impacting the tower... not earth.

[Johnny Utah]

my condolences to Olov and Thors family :(