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Free Fall Travel Destinations

At some of the locations where these incidents occurred there are memorials or plaques.

Name	Type	Description	Location
Ogwyn George	Wreckage Rider	Sylling, Norway	There is a plaque at the crash site and the crew members are buried in a local cemetery
Juliane Koepcke	Wreckage Rider	Pecullpa, Peru	There is a memorial to the crash victims at Pecullpa airport
Alan Magee	Free Faller	St. Nazaire, France	There is a plaque at the crash site. Also of interest are the train station where he landed and a museum with the noseart from his B-17
Alfred Muhler	Wreckage Rider (see the Incident Log)	Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium (suburb of Ghent)	There is a plaque at the crash site
Ray Noury	Unlucky Skydiver	Dubec Hill, near the villages of Pradlo and Nepomuk, Czech Republic	The monument is set to be dedicated in May of 2009. There is also a museum with some relics of the crash in nearby Blovice.
R.B. Reed	Wreckage Rider (see the Incident Log)	Steinegg, Italy	There is a memorial at the crash site
Vesna Vulovic	Wreckage Rider	Srbska Kamenice, Czech Republic	There is a memorial at the crash site

Send Us Your Photograph at Any of These Sites and We’ll Post It

If you visit any of these sites (or any Free Fall site, whether there is a monument or not), please take pictures and send them to us. If you like, we will post your picture on this page.
Here are some examples:

LZ37 zeppelin crash in Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium (Alfred Muhler)

Lois Frotten's fall into Mystic Lake, Marstons Mills, Cape Cod

Joshua Hanson's fall from the Hyatt Regency in Minneapolis, Minnesota
LZ37 zeppelin crash in Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium
Jim Hamilton at the site of the LZ37 zeppelin crash in Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium

Lois Frotten, Mystic Lake, Marstons Mills, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
The following three pictures relate to Lois Frotten's fall into Mystic Lake. See the Unlucky Skydivers page for more details.

Jim Hamilton at Marstons Mills airport where her flight took off

Jim Hamilton near Mystic Lake

A view of Mystic Lake

Joshua Hanson, Hyatt Regency hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
The following pictures were taken at the site of Joshua Hanson’s fall from the 17th story of the Hyatt Regency hotel in Minneapolis. See the Home page for more details.

Jim Hamilton at the site of the fall. Hanson landed on the first floor roof near the window in the background.

View of the Hyatt Regency from the skywalk across the street.

View from the 17th floor window through which Hanson fell.

An outside view of the 25-story Hyatt Regency Minneapolis. Count down nine window panes to get to the 17th floor.