The video of Jessi Combs before dying at 800 km / h

American pilot Jessi Combs He died at the age of 39, victim of an accident while trying to improve his own speed record of 640 kilometers at the time, established in 2013. The video of the One of the tests a few minutes before the fatal attempt was broadcast at these stupor moments

Considered as the fastest woman on the planet On four wheels, Combs was testing a specially adapted vehicle equipped with a jet engine when it crashed in the Alvord desert, in Harney County, in the United States. Oregon. "The causes of the accident, occurred in the bed of a drained river, are for the moment unknown and are the subject of an investigation," said police authorities at the time. confirmation of his death.

Combs was driving the "North American Eagle", a 17-meter-long self-jet equipped with a jet engine capable of generating more than 45,500 horses with which he had been trying to improve his record in October 2018 .

Record that was not officially approved due to a mechanical failure and in which a mark that has remained in force for 48 years has been improved: the 495 km / h established by Lee Breedlove

Expert mechanic, Combs aimed to improve the record set in 1976 by fellow countryman and double-risk Kitty O Neil, who in a three-wheeled vehicle had exceeded 825 kilometers at the time in the same desert of Alvord.