peter_6095 Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 A Saudi friend has just passed on to me the sad news that Capt Ahmed al Zahrani died in a flying accident this morning. I don't know too many of the details except that he was taking a passenger on a tandem flight - the passenger reportedly survived. Ahmed taught me to paramotor in Riyadh. He was the most enthusiastic, charming and thoroughly likeable guy. He had a deep love for flying, piloting everything from a Tornado down to a paramotor and most things in between during the course of his life. Always up for adventure - he once flew his paramotor through the hole in the middle of the most iconic building in Ryadh (at 3am, secretly) - he once flew from Riyadh to Jeddah, setting a record in the process, as reported here: http://archive.arabnews.com/?page=8&sec ... m=7&y=2004 Rest in peace 'Abu Nawaf'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilc Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 Very sad news indeed... I don't know if the Saudi pilots face more challenging flying conditions than those of us living in the western world, but I believe this brings the total to four paramotor pilot fatalities in the past year or so... Neil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 24, 2010 Share Posted October 24, 2010 SW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abudhahi Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 He was a a good brother , friend and an example of a successful coach, I will miss him a lot Sultan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majed Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 A great loss for all of us here in Saudi, we well miss allot.i was trained by him year 2003 and ever since then he was a great mentor and friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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