François-Xavier Bagnoud born in 1962 and dead the January 14th 1986 at the time of an accident of helicopter which it flew within the framework of the Rallye Dakar, is a pilot Suisse.

Biography

It follows studies of Engineer to the school of aerospace engineering of the university of the Michigan. His/her father, Bruno Bagnoud, are the owner and founder of the company Valais Anne Air Glaciers. His/her mother, the countess Albina of Boisrouvray, is creative foundation.

The accident

January 14th, 1986, the helicopter which it flew within the framework of the Rallye Dakar is taken in a terrible sand wind. On board are also Daniel Balavoine, the singer, Thierry Sabine, the creator of the Rallye Dakar, Nathaly Odent, a journalist, and Jean-Paul Lefur, a technician radio. At the falling night, they are posed once, to 25 km of the bivouac installed at the edge of the Niger. They ask initially that one sends a car to seek them, then they redécollent all the same. Ten kilometers further, the helicopter runs up against a dune, with eight kilometers of Gourma-Rharous, with the Mali.

Association FXB

The Association François-Xavier Bagnoud was given like mission of fighting against poverty and the AIDS and of supporting the vulnerable orphans and children that pandemia leaves in its wake.

Others

Its name was given to a observatory located above the village of Saint-Luc in Valais, as at a price which is decreed every two years to distinguish from the remarkable achievements in the field of the aerospace one.

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