Five people, four of them members of a family, were killed when a tourist plane crashed in the French Alps on Saturday, according to French emergency services.
The incident took place shortly after take-off from Versailles Airport near the southeastern French city of Grenoble.
The trip was supposed to last half an hour.
The wreckage of a small tourist plane was “completely burnt”, the newspaper Sood Avast reported.
Cinq dies in crash of tourist plane in Isère https://t.co/ZJsj1TDnxZ pic.twitter.com/1Al12EyVSR
– Sud Ouest (@sudouest) 21 May 2022
The newspaper quoted firefighters as saying that the identities of the victims had not yet been determined.
He revealed that local authorities deployed a firefighting helicopter to put out the fire with the support of a gendarmerie squad to help.
For its part, the province near Iser said in a press release that a total of 60 firefighters had been dispatched to the scene.
Source: Lebanon Debate
