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A tourist plane from Essonne crashes near Dijon, the three passengers die

2021-09-10T16:52:39.908Z


For reasons still unknown, the tourist aircraft crashed in Côte d'Or, not far from an aerodrome north of Dijon. The hypothesis of


On the first images of the accident, we can distinguish entire pieces of the cabin with predominantly white and green and gray stripes.

Three people died in the crash of their small tourist plane on Friday near Dijon (Côte-d'Or), we learned from the firefighters of the department.

Three dead in a plane crash near Darois aerodrome in Côte-d'Or pic.twitter.com/laYE1Ak3QP

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The plane, which was carrying only the three victims, crashed for a still unknown reason not far from a runway at Darois airfield, north of Dijon, the same source said.

It had taken off from Essey-lès-Nancy, in Meurthe-et-Moselle.

The plane landed in the middle of the afternoon in weather conditions made relatively complicated due to a rain shower, according to the first observations.

The emergency services did not detect any trace of fire on the carcass.

A plane from Essonne?

At least four fire ambulances, Samu, gendarmes, the air transport gendarmerie brigade (BGTA), criminal identification technicians from Dijon and Roissy-en-France (Val-d'Oise) were dispatched to the site. and investigators from the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA), according to Le Bien Public. The public prosecutor also went to the scene of the accident.

According to the local daily, the three victims would be men born between 1949 and 1957. Le Bien Public announces that the plane would belong to the Etampes (Essonne) flying club that it was to join this Friday evening with two other planes. In total, the group included five planes, confirms France 3. The tragically damaged aircraft would have deviated from its flight plan, details the local daily. A judicial investigation for "manslaughter" and an administrative investigation have been opened, according to France Bleu.

Source: leparis

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