Dubai ‘jetman’ Vincent Reffet killed in training incident

Base jumper Vince Reffet leaps from the 300-metre Open Deck of Malaysia’s landmark Kuala Lumpur Tower in 2013 (Vincent Thian/AP)

One of Dubai’s “jetmen”, whose flights over the world’s tallest building and alongside a jumbo jet with engines strapped to his back wowed watchers online, has died while training, his organisation said.

Vincent Reffet, 36, of Annecy, France, was killed during training in the deserts of the Arabian sheikhdom, Jetman Dubai said in a statement.