The two crew members of the Mirage 2000D who crashed on Wednesday in a mountainous area between the Doubs and Jura are dead, announced Thursday the Minister of Armies Florence Parly in a statement.
The circumstances of the tragedy remain to be established. "The Mirage 2000D's search operations, whose signal was lost on Wednesday morning, unfortunately led to the confirmation of the deaths of the two crew members, Captain Baptiste Chirié and Lt. Audrey Michelon," said Florence Parly. emphasizing that "the precise circumstances of this accident remain to be established".