title: Hannes Arch
text: # Hannes Arch
  
  Hannes Arch (22 September 1967 – 8 September 2016) was an Austrian pilot who competed in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship from 2007 to 2016. Arch won the World Championship in the 2008 season.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Hannes Arch was born in Leoben, Austria in 1967.
  
  ## Death
  
  Hannes Arch died on 8 September 2016 in a helicopter crash in the Austrian Alps during a helicopter supply flight to a remote mountain lodge, the Elberfelder Hut. Shortly after takeoff at about 9:15 p.m., the helicopter struck the side of a mountain. Arch died of a broken neck, a passenger survived the crash. Arch was accompanied in the helicopter by the mountain hut's owner Reinhard B., a 62-year-old German who ran the Alpine hut which Arch had delivered supplies to. The German was seriously injured in the crash but survived.
  
  Hannes Arch was buried at a funeral attended by his closest relatives in Trofaiach on 13 September 2016.
  
  ## Red Bull X-Alps
  
  Hannes made his mark on the paragliding scene inventing the grueling international competition known as the Red Bull X-Alps, taking the world's most elite paragliding pilots across the Alps from Austria to Monaco entirely by air or foot in a race against the clock. The event quickly gained a reputation as one of the world's toughest adventure races.
  
  ## Red Bull Air Race Results
  
  Hannes Arch at the Red Bull Air Race World Series :
  
  | Year | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Points | Wins | Rank |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 2007 | DNQ | 4th | 10th | 11th | CAN | 12th | 11th | 10th | 12th | 10th | CAN | 9th | 3 | 0 | 10th |
  | 2008 | 2nd | 4th | 3rd | CAN | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 1st | CAN | 3rd | | | 61 | 2 | 1st |
  | 2009 | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 4th | | | | | | | 60 | 1 | 2nd |
  | 2010 | 11th | 1st | 1st | 1st | 4th | 1st | CAN | CAN | | | | | 60 | 4 | 2nd |
  | 2014 | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 8th | 8th | 5th | 4th | | | | | 53 | 1 | 2nd |
  | 2015 | United Arab Emirates 4 | Japan 11 | Croatia 1 | Hungary 1 | United Kingdom 8 | Austria 12 | United States 9 | United States 5 | | | | | 34 | 2 | 3rd |
  | 2016 | United Arab Emirates EX | Austria 2 | Japan 6 | Hungary 2 | United Kingdom 3 | Germany 5 | United States DNP | United States DNP | | | | | 41 | 0 | 3rd |
  
  Legend:
  
  * CAN: Cancelled
  * DNP: Did not participate
  * DNQ: Did not qualify
  * DNS: Did not show
  * DQ: Disqualified
  * NC: Not classified
  