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A former NASA scientist has tragically died in a base-jumping accident in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old Brit was taking part in a planned jump<\/h1>\n

He was crowned British wingsuit champion in July, and had reportedly carried out hundreds of jumps, in a sport combining skydiving and hang gliding.<\/p>\n

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It involves leaping from an aircraft or from a very high altitude and gliding through the air while wearing a specially designed suit.<\/p>\n

The incident took place on Tuesday<\/h1>\n

According to reports, he had previously worked on spacecraft propulsion for both NASA and the European Space Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former NASA scientist has tragically died in a base-jumping accident in Saudi Arabia. The 38-year-old Brit was taking part in a planned jump He was crowned British wingsuit champion in July, and had reportedly carried out hundreds of jumps, in a sport combining skydiving and hang gliding. It involves leaping from an aircraft or … ","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":{"hide_featured_image":false,"featured_image":{"ID":4752,"id":4752,"title":"header image template.001","filename":"header-image-template.001-15.jpeg","filesize":0,"url":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/header-image-template.001-15.jpeg","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/lifestyle\/sports\/nasa-scientist-tragically-died-in-a-base-jumping-accident\/attachment\/header-image-template-001-38\/","alt":"","author":"403","description":"","caption":"","name":"header-image-template-001-38","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":4750,"date":"2019-08-23 09:39:39","modified":"2019-08-23 09:39:39","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":561,"height":320,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/header-image-template.001-15-150x150.jpeg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/header-image-template.001-15-300x171.jpeg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":171,"medium_large":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/header-image-template.001-15.jpeg","medium_large-width":561,"medium_large-height":320,"large":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/header-image-template.001-15.jpeg","large-width":561,"large-height":320,"1536x1536":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/header-image-template.001-15.jpeg","1536x1536-width":561,"1536x1536-height":320,"2048x2048":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/header-image-template.001-15.jpeg","2048x2048-width":561,"2048x2048-height":320,"small":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/header-image-template.001-15-230x131.jpeg","small-width":120,"small-height":68,"custom-size":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/08\/header-image-template.001-15.jpeg","custom-size-width":351,"custom-size-height":200}},"featured_image_caption":"","ad_square_right":"","summary":"","flexible_content":false,"legacy_image":"","legacy_full_image":"","disable_ads":false,"slots_script_override":"","ad_horizontal_top_desktop":"","ad_vertical_left_desktop":"","ad_vertical_right_desktop":"","ad_horizontal_top_tablet":"","ad_horizontal_bottom_tablet":"","ad_horizontal_mobile_1":"","ad_horizontal_mobile_2":"","ad_horizontal_mobile_3":"","article_ad_infeed_slot":"","ad_square_podcast":"","disable_lovin_hearts":false,"lovin_heart_title":"","show_sponsor":false,"sponsor_image":false,"sponsor_name":"","sponsor_content":"","sponsor_website":"","sponsor_facebook":"","sponsor_twitter":"","sponsor_instagram":"","enable_reveal_feature":false,"reveal_image":false,"legacy_sponsor_name":"","legacy_sponsor_website":"","legacy_sponsor_content":"","legacy_sponsor_image":"","legacy_meta_tags":"","is_guest_user":false,"episode_number":"","embed_code":"","episode_introduction":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}