French tightrope walker killed preparing for stunt
21:56, 8 January 2016
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - 32-year-old French tightrope walker Tancrede Melet, founder of Flying Frenchies group, died preparing for a stunt that went awry in the southeastern part of France on Tuesday.
He was working on a stunt that included walking a tightrope between two balloons, but the stunt went wrong and he fell to the ground from about 30 meters dying of the sustained trauma.
Metet had a wife and one child.