The results are dramatic.
Five people were killed on Saturday in the crash of a tourist plane in Isère.
Departing from Versoud aerodrome, the machine crashed shortly after takeoff near Les Adrets, in the Belledonne massif.
The wreckage of the small plane was found "totally charred", which initially made it difficult to identify the victims, firefighters said on Saturday.
A former coach of the French bobsleigh team
This Sunday, the public prosecutor of Grenoble, Éric Vaillant, was able to give more details on the identity of the victims.
Starting with the pilot, Frédéric Gilardot.
This 66-year-old man is a locally known figure, since he was the academic director of the national education services (Dasen) of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, reports the daily La Provence.
He was also a member of the Versoud aerodrome.
Before becoming passionate about piloting, he coached the French bobsleigh team from 1989 to 1993, the newspaper still reports.
A grandmother and her grandchildren
The public prosecutor of Grenoble explained that Frédéric Gilardot had proposed to a friend, aged 57, to participate in this flight.
She herself had then proposed the exit to one of her friends, 63 years old.
The latter came with her two grandchildren, an 11-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl.
Both were cousins (and not from the same siblings).
The five victims were domiciled in Grenoble and the surrounding area, said the prosecutor.
Autopsies of the bodies, which were extracted late Saturday night from the plane, are scheduled for Sunday.
An investigation was opened and entrusted to the Isère gendarmerie group, the air transport gendarmerie brigade and the SRGTA (
French air transport gendarmes
) in Paris in order to determine the causes of this accident.
