Only the pilot was on board the aircraft. A tourist plane crashed at sea off Fécamp (Seine-Maritime) on Tuesday, announced the prefecture of Manche.
"The aircraft, with only one person on board, which took off from the Saint-André de l'Eure aerodrome (Eure) at around 2.30pm was in the direction of Saint-Valéry-en-Caux (Seine-Maritime) and the searches are continuing in the area to try to find the pilot, "said the maritime prefecture in a press release.
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Several witnesses as well as the semaphore of Fécamp warned the Regional Operational Center for Surveillance and Rescue (Cross) Gris-Nez that a small aircraft had just crashed about two kilometers northwest of Fécamp, the statement said.
This is a DR400 type aircraft. A helicopter of the French Navy, the SNSM of Fécamp as well as a zodiac of the firefighters of Seine-Maritime were hired to "carry out a search for the possible shipwrecked", according to the maritime prefecture.
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