A helicopter accident occurred on Tuesday around 7:10 pm in Savoie, at an altitude of 1,800 meters.
Six people were on board.
The French Air Service helicopter crashed with four SAF members and two CRS Alpes rescuers on board training in the town of Bonvillard, near Albertville.
The alert was given by the pilot of the helicopter which managed to eject.
The prefect of Savoy activated the departmental operational center.
The search is underway to find the 6 occupants.
A maximum of resources is committed, three helicopters are notably mobilized.
Forty people mobilized
Extra-departmental resources have been requested and are on their way to Savoy.
The research section of the gendarmerie
of air transport goes there, according to our information.
In view of the fog, the access conditions were not easy but the aircraft was located.
A ground intervention is also underway.
A party of CRS was formed.
More than 40 personnel are engaged in search and rescue operations, including 17 police officers from the CRS Alpes.
A doctor and a first aid team arrived in the area at 8:20 p.m.
A first contact was established with one of the occupants of the aircraft.
The SAF group (formerly French Air Relief) is a private company created in 1979. It owns around forty helicopters and operates in all the Alps, in Paris and in the South-West.
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It carries out medical evacuations and on-piste rescue in ski resorts, transporting equipment and goods in the mountains, as well as tourism activities.
It also intervenes in the fight against fires with water bombers.
