Two Britons die in mid-air plane crash in French Alps
The Local - [email protected] •
24 Jul, 2019
Updated Wed 24 Jul 2019 13:57 CEST
Two British light aircraft collided
mid-air after taking off from an airstrip in the southern French Alps on
Wednesday, killing two fliers while a third survived the accident, local
authorities said.
A pilot and passenger in one of the planes had been declared dead, a statement from the local government office in the village of Digne-les-Bains said, adding that they were aged 37 and 18 and were both British.
The pilot of the second plane, who was also British, survived the crash with light injuries after the collision close to the Italian border.
The aircraft had taken off earlier from the Barcelonnette-Saint-Pons airstrip in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region in southern France (pictured below)..
French emergency services backed by a police helicopter were at the scene, while an investigation has been opened to determine the cause of the accident, the statement added.
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A pilot and passenger in one of the planes had been declared dead, a statement from the local government office in the village of Digne-les-Bains said, adding that they were aged 37 and 18 and were both British.
The pilot of the second plane, who was also British, survived the crash with light injuries after the collision close to the Italian border.
The aircraft had taken off earlier from the Barcelonnette-Saint-Pons airstrip in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region in southern France (pictured below)..
French emergency services backed by a police helicopter were at the scene, while an investigation has been opened to determine the cause of the accident, the statement added.
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