The Loches police have resumed the investigation of the accident. (Representative)
Rennes:
Five people were killed after a passenger plane and a microlight collided in western France on Saturday, the local government said.
The small ULM carrying two people collided with a DA40 tourist plane with three people on board around 4:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. GMT) in Loches in the department of Indre-et-Loire, Nadia Seghier, official told AFP. of local government.
“(The ULL) landed on the fence around a house without harming anyone, (the DA40) several hundred meters away in an uninhabited area,” Seghier said. “All five people involved are dead.”
About fifty firefighters were arrested while around thirty gendarmes set up road detours around the scene of the crash.
“The personnel of the air emergencies of Lyon were brought in initially to find the plane, which was quickly found”, indicated the prefecture.
No details on the identity of the victims or the causes of the collision have so far been disclosed.
The Loches police have resumed the investigation of the accident.
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