Christian Marty
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
- ↑ Kelly Boyer SAGES: Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports , Greenwood Press, p. 234 [1]
- ↑ The Guinness book of records , p. 168 [2]
- ^ Article from August 8, 2000 on cnn.com ( Memento from December 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), accessed January 23, 2009 (English)
- ^ Concorde Disaster: Hero was first Frenchman to windsurf Atlantic , accessed July 8, 2012.
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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 |