Two men, aged 61 and 65, were killed in the fall of their microlight on Friday in the town of Grayan-et-l'Hôpital (Gironde), we learned from the gendarmerie on Saturday.
The aircraft, which had taken off from La Rochelle, crashed in the middle of the afternoon in a wooded area difficult to access, near the ocean, according to the same source.
On their arrival, the emergency services, alerted by witnesses, discovered the lifeless bodies of the two victims.
"Witnesses saw the ULM crash", according to the Bordeaux prosecutor's office, quoted by Sud-Ouest.
According to the regional daily, the device literally crashed in the middle of the pines.
The medical team had to be hoisted because of the location of the accident site, which was difficult to access.
An investigation was opened by the Bordeaux prosecutor's office and entrusted to the research section of the air transport gendarmerie to determine the causes of the accident.
This did not cause collateral damage, said the gendarmerie.
Gironde: two dead in the crash in the Médoc forest of an ULM that left La Rochelle.
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