Christian Marty

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Christian Marty (born December 16, 1946 in Paris , † July 25, 2000 in Gonesse near Paris) was a French surfer and pilot. He was the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean on a surfboard.

Life

1969 Marty earned his pilot's license and worked subsequently for Air France . Christian Marty was an extreme athlete . He windsurfed 160 kilometers from Guadeloupe to Martinique in the Caribbean . In 1980 he surfed from Nice to Corsica . He was the first person to cross the Atlantic on a surfboard. In 1981/1982 he drove 3,219 kilometers in 37 days from the African Dakar in Senegal to Kourou in the overseas department of French Guiana in South America.

After being a pilot and instructor on numerous models on the line, including the Airbus A340 , he became a flight captain on the Concorde in 1999 . On July 25, 2000, he died as the captain of flight AF4590 in the worst accident involving a Concorde .

The media and eyewitnesses ascribed him a kind of heroic role at the time, as he steered the burning plane away from the village of Gonesse and dropped it on a barely inhabited area in order to avoid a major catastrophe.

bibliography

  • Christian Marty, "L'atlantique à Mains Nues", ISBN 2851083058 , October 3, 1984

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kelly Boyer SAGES: Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports , Greenwood Press, p. 234 [1]
  2. ↑ The Guinness book of records , p. 168 [2]
  3. ^ Article from August 8, 2000 on cnn.com ( Memento from December 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), accessed January 23, 2009 (English)
  4. ^ Concorde Disaster: Hero was first Frenchman to windsurf Atlantic , accessed July 8, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Marty, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French surfer and pilot
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2000
Place of death Gonesse