Dubai jetman ‘failed to deploy parachute’ in fatal crash

Vincent Reffet, left, was the protege of Swiss pilot Yves Rossy (AP)

A famed “jetman” daredevil who was killed in a crash last November failed to deploy the emergency parachute attached to the winged engines strapped to his back, a report on the tragedy in Dubai has found.

Investigators from the United Arab Emirates’ General Civil Aviation Authority could not explain why Vincent Reffet, 36, of Annecy, France, did not use his parachute in the fall during a training flight in the desert of the sheikhdom.