Small airplane crashes within the Pyrenees, 4 useless | EUROtoday

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An teacher and three college studentsNational Civil Aviation School (Enac) French, aged between 18 and 25, died on Sunday inAriègewithin the Pyrenees, within the crash of a light-weight airplane. The Minister of Transport introduced it this morning Philippe Tabarot. The Public Prosecutor’s Office has been knowledgeable, and an investigation will set up the circumstances of the accident.

After searches on the bottom and within the air, the plane, a single-engine plane usually utilized by flying golf equipment, was discovered yesterday night at an altitude of 1,200 meters within the Pyrenees, along with the our bodies of the 4 occupants, three males and a girl, in accordance with sources near the investigation.

The flying membership of Saint-Girons (Ariège) contacted the Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Center (ARCC) of Lyon, which despatched two helicopters, one from the gendarmerie and the opposite from civil safety, to hold out the aerial searches. For its half, the prefecture despatched firefighters and gendarmes to hold out searches on the bottom. On web site, mountain rescuers have been solely capable of affirm the deaths of 4 individuals.