a Swiss television drone crashes in Adelboden

While flying over a skier during the Berne events this weekend, an SRF drone crashed at Chuenisbärgli.

There was more fear than harm on Sunday in the first round of the Adelboden giant, after an SRF drone, delivering sumptuous images, nosedived over bib 35: that of Jonas Stockinger.

The machine crashed behind the German, several meters behind him, but fortunately the accident did not disturb him in any way. The giant also rose in the second round and then ranked 18th in the Bernese classic, his best result in the World Cup.

In fact, it was above all the viewers, who were benefiting from Swiss production all over the world, who witnessed the scene best, because it was on the drone’s onboard camera that the director had set his sights at the time of the filming. loss of control.

These images recall to a lesser extent what happened in 2015 at the Madonna di Campiglio slalom. At the time, the equipment, much heavier and more imposing, narrowly missed crashing into Marcel Hirscher. The crash also follows one seen during the recent Four Hills Tour, at the bottom of the Bischofshofen hill in Austria.

Questioned by the Blick German-speaking Switzerland, the SRF was not able to communicate the cause of this incident, at least initially. “The reason was a connection interruption, which interrupted flight control,” she then said, adding that the machine, that the editorial staff of watson had estimated two years ago at 20,000 francs, was not damaged.

Although all safety protocols have been respected, in particular that concerning the distance between the device and the skier, it cannot be ruled out that drones will not be used during the Wengen events to come this weekend. .

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