An instructor and his passenger were killed Sunday in the fall of their ULM shortly after taking off from Puy-Loudes airport, in Chaspuzac (Haute-Loire), we learned from concordant sources.
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The two men died around 9 a.m. after the aircraft hit a building used as a municipal technical room located slightly below the airport platform
,” Michel Joubert, mayor of Chaspuzac, told AFP.
The victims, from Haute-Loire, are a 76-year-old instructor, president of the ULM club at the airport near Puy-en-Velay, and one of his 55-year-old students who was completing his training, said the gendarmerie.
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For its part, the Puy-en-Velay public prosecutor's office indicated that it had entrusted the Air Transport Gendarmerie Brigade (BGTA) of Clermont-Ferrand and the Research Bridage of Puy-en-Velay with an investigation which should determine the causes. of the fall of the aircraft.
