Ten after the accident, the Paris prosecutor’s office requested the derivation to a court for involuntary homicide of the producer and the security manager of the retired program. Two helicopters then collided playing ten dead, including athletes Florence Arthaud, Camille Muffat and Alexis Vastine.
The Company Adventures Line Productions (ALP) and the Security Manager “committed failures that probably involved their criminal responsibility,” said Paris Prosecutor’s Office to the AFP, confirming information from Ousest-France.
The Prosecutor’s Office emphasizes that no information had been organized “in the presence of the second pilot (arrived late to the scene) to ensure that the maneuver in robbery wants production for editorial purposes is perfectly understood by the two pilots.”
The organizers also did not ensure “compliance with the current aeronautical rules with respect to this type of maneuver on the flight,” he continues. “A dismissal has been required against other natural persons accused in the archive,” he added.
Ten deaths in the accident
On March 9, 2015, not far from the eternal snow of the General Manuel Belgrano hill (6,250 m), two helicopters took off from Villa Castelli, in the Argentine province of Rioja, to transport sports and technical team on the shooting scene. The retired candidates, scheduled for the transmission in the summer of 2015 in TF1, would be dropped in isolated areas and then had 72 hours to find civilization.
But at the beginning of this flight closed at low altitude, aimed at the cameraman from one device filming the other, the two ecureuil helicopters collided before crashing. Ten people died: in addition to the browser and the Olympic Swimming and Boxing Champions, five French production members and two Argentine pilots.
Skater Philippe Candeloro and swimmer Alain Bernard, other candidates who participated in the program such as former cyclist Jeannie Longo, told how they attended, helpless, to this tragedy, the most fatal in the history of reality television.
Source: BFM TV
