Hannes Arch
Hannes Arch 
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| Surname | Hannes Arch |
| Born | September 22, 1967 in Leoben , Styria , Austria |
| Died | September 8, 2016 at Heiligenblut am Großglockner , Carinthia , Austria |
| Red Bull Air Race World Championship | |
| Racing team | Team Hannes Arch |
| plane | Edge 540 V3 |
| Placements / titles | |
| champion | 2008 |
| Placement (year) | 10th (2007) 1st (2008) 2nd (2009) 2nd (2010) 2nd (2014) 3rd (2015) 3rd (2016) |
Hannes Arch (* 22. September 1967 in Leoben , Styria , † 8. September 2016 at Heiligenblut at Grossglockner , Carinthia ) was an Austrian aerobatics - pilot and operator of an air transport company.
biography
Arch grew up in Trofaiach , attended the BORG Eisenerz and last lived in the city of Salzburg . Since the 2007 season, the state-certified mountain and ski guide was the first Austrian participant in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship , after winning a qualifying round in Phoenix (Arizona) in October 2006 .
He contested his first race in the series on April 6, 2007 in Abu Dhabi ( UAE ), where he did not get beyond qualification. He achieved this for the first time in his second race in Rio de Janeiro on April 21: He achieved fourth place and thus 3 points. In the further course of the season, however, he did not get any further points, whereby he reached rank 10 in the overall standings.
His second season in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in 2008 was much more successful: Arch took two second, third and fourth place in the first five competitions, before his first victory in the competition in Budapest on August 19 and 20 could achieve. After he was able to finish victoriously in Porto , he took the lead in the overall standings. On November 1, 2008, in Perth, Australia, he was crowned World Champion of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2008 by winning qualifying .
Arch started the 2009 season with a win in the first season competition in Abu Dhabi; He achieved four podium places in six competitions during the season, was never worse than fourth and ended the year as runner-up behind Paul Bonhomme .
Like most of the pilots in the series, he flew a Zivko Edge 540 .
Arch has also made a name for himself in base jumping and caused a sensation when he and Ueli Gegenschatz performed a base jump from the north face of the Eiger in 2000 and from the north face of the Matterhorn in 2003.
Since 2010 he was in a relationship with the German stunt woman and action model Miriam Höller .
For an air show in front of thousands of spectators, Arch flew under the Mozartsteg over the Salzach in the center of Salzburg without permission from Austro Control and paid “less than € 5,000 fine” for it in 2007.
At the beginning of April 2016, he flew slalom in the Tauernwindpark in Oberzeiring between the 14 masts of the wind turbines, the three-blade wind turbines of which were set in the Y position and across the direction of flight. It had taken months to get the permit. The masts are about 60 m high and are each about 100 m apart on a ridge, because of the terrain and the road, they are not on a line. Flying at an altitude of 1900 m is more difficult because of the lower air pressure (approx. 800 mbar compared to 1013 mbar above sea level). While a collision with an inflatable pylon of the Red Bull Air Race would not have any consequences, a collision with a steel mast would most likely be fatal.
crash
Arch had a fatal accident as a pilot in a helicopter crash on September 8, 2016 in the Schober group in the Großglockner area in Carinthia.
Hannes Arch had violated a flight ban on the unlucky evening. According to a decision by the state of Carinthia, it should only have started by 4 p.m. at the latest. The pilot for the transport of food to the Elberfelder Hütte did not take off until around 9:15 p.m. Albert Kreiner, head of the responsible department for the state of Carinthia, explained: "For nature conservation reasons, it is forbidden to fly into the Hohe Tauern National Park after 4 p.m."
In December 2016, the Klagenfurt public prosecutor heard that human error was to be assumed, as a technical defect could be ruled out. Arch saw the rock too late in flight and did not fly with specialized searchlights.
Arch was buried on September 13, 2016 after a funeral service in the circle of close relatives at the Trofaiach cemetery.
A year after the crash, a first interim report by the Federal Investigation Agency (SUB) was published in September 2017. According to this, the helicopter hit a rock face 650 m northeast of the Elberfelder Hütte at a height of 2343 m at a speed of around 53 kn (98 km / h) . The necessary flight preparation could "not be completely found and reconstructed". Arch had also given the distant heliport St. Johann (Pongau) as the departure point in his flight plan instead of the actual one. Arch had a good 1019 hours of flight experience, 184 of them on the Robinson R66 helicopter . He had more than 28 hours of night vision flight experience. The hut warden flying along as a passenger suffered three fractures of the vertebrae and several broken ribs.
successes
Red Bull Air Race Series
Race wins
Single results
The races are listed chronologically in the fields of the table core. The flag indicates the venue. The number underneath in the same field is the placement of Arch. 1st places - also in the overall ranking of the year - are marked in light yellow, 2nd dark gray, 3rd orange, 4th - 8th green, 9th - blue.
| year | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | Points | rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 |
 13 |
 4th |
 10 |
 11 |
 12 |
 11 |
 10 |
 12 |
10 |
 9 |
3 | 10 |
| 2008 |
2 |
4th |
3 |
 CAN |
 2 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
 CAN |
3 |
61 | 1 |
| 2009 |
1 |
3 |
 2 |
4th |
2 |
4th |
60 | 2 | ||||
| 2010 |
11 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
4th |
 1 |
CAN |
CAN |
60 | 2 | ||
| 2014 |
2 |
 1 |
 2 |
 1 |
8th |
8th |
5 |
4th |
53 | 2 | ||
| 2015 |
4th |
 11 |
1 |
1 |
8th |
12 |
9 |
5 |
34 | 3 | ||
| 2016 |
DSQ |
2 |
6th |
2 |
3 |
5 |
- |
- |
41 | 3 |
( Legend: DNP = did not participate; DNS = did not start; DSQ = disqualified; CAN = canceled)
On his last flight in a Red Bull Air Race on September 4, 2016 at the Lausitzring, he lost in the Round of 8 to Australian Matt Hall by 2/1000 seconds, the tightest time difference in a Red Bull Air Race ever.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hannes Arch: The most spectacular actions of the aerial acrobat salzburg.com, September 10, 2016, accessed September 10, 2016.
- ↑ High Speed Slalom Flying Through a Wind Farm Red Bull, youtube, April 10, 2016, accessed September 10, 2016. - Video (1:31).
- ↑ Watch Hannes Arch fly slalom through a wind farm redbull.com, undated , accessed September 10, 2016. - Several videos and picture albums.
- ↑ derStandard.at: Hannes Arch killed in a helicopter crash in the Glockner area. APA, STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, September 9, 2016, accessed on September 26, 2016 .
- ↑ http://www.krone.at/motorsport/arch-hatte-in-todesnacht-keine-flugerlaubnis-zu-spaet-gestartet-story-529805
- ↑ Newspaper: Arch crash human error orf.at, December 22, 2016, accessed December 23. - ORF calls on the print Friday edition (December 23, 2016) of the newspaper Der Standard.
- ^ Obituary Hannes Arch , ServusTV, 2016-09-13.
- ^ Arch's death: Official report on pilot errors
- ↑ Comfy Red Bull Air Race life in a Niesmann + Bischoff Motorhome www.hannesarch.com, September 5, 2016
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| SURNAME | Arch, Hannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian aerobatic pilot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leoben |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 2016 |
| Place of death | Heiligenblut am Großglockner |