‘What I Saw Shocked Me’: Huge Michael Schumacher Update as Rescue Pilot Spills Beans
Dainese said Schumacher was stabilized on a vacuum mattress and flown 25 minutes to Grenoble after the 2013 crash.
- Emergency rescue pilot Yannick Dainese has revealed details of the 2013 mission to the Alpina resort, where he discovered the seriously injured skier was Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher.
- Schumacher hit a rock buried in the snow, flying headfirst around 3.5 metres before striking a second boulder that split his helmet in two.
- Dainese felt immense pressure knowing Schumacher was "worshipped like a god," and days later at the Grenoble University Hospital Centre, he found the grounds transformed into a Formula 1 circuit.
- Schumacher was placed in an induced coma after undergoing at least two major surgeries; Corinna Schumacher has kept his medical condition extremely private since, allowing only a tight inner-sanctum contact.
- Breaking his silence 13 years later, Dainese admitted initial disbelief at the emergency call. "At first I thought he was joking," the pilot said.
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Michael Schumacher's state of health remains one of the great unknowns of the world's sport. Since 29 December 2013 he suffered a serious accident while skiing in the French Alps, the family of the former German pilot has maintained a strict hermetism about his situation. More than twelve years after that event that shocked the world of Formula 1, one of the men who participated in his rescue has decided to break his silence.Keep reading...
Yannick Dainese was part of the team that barged Michael Schumacher from the slope after his ski accident in December 2013. More than twelve years after the tragic day, the helicopter pilot spoke publicly about the rescue operation for the first time.
Yannick Dainese was the helicopter pilot who evacuated the F1 legend on December 29, 2013. More information: Michael Schumacher: 12 years of silence after the accident that changed the life of the F1 legend and its nearby environment.
The pilot who flew Michael Schumacher to the hospital after the fatal skiing accident is opening up for the first time in 12 years.
After almost 13 years of the serious ski accident suffered by former driver Michael Schumacher in the French Alps on December 29, 2013, new details about the service to the idol of Formula 1 and the first hospital care came to light. According to the report of the French newspaper L'Equipe, after the arrival of the German to the University Hospital of Grenoble, access to the former pilot was extremely restricted: only the former companions of ca…
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