A Cesna-type plane crashed Wednesday morning in Reunion, in the area of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano, killing two people and injuring two, the Reunion prefecture said. "First assessment of Samu: two people injured, two dead," said the prefecture on Twitter.
Flight accident update at #Reunion: the 2 wounded people were evacuated to the Saint-Pierre University Hospital (one in absolute urgency, the other in relative urgency). Thanks to the commitment of @Gendarmerie and @ SDIS974
- Prefect of Reunion (@ Prefet974) October 16, 2019"The two injured people were evacuated to the CHU Saint-Pierre (one in absolute urgency, the other in relative urgency)," she said. The plane, which had four people on board, triggered its distress beacon Wednesday morning in the area of the volcano Piton de la Fournaise, "near the Plain of Sands", where it was finally located. The Public Prosecutor's Office of Saint-Pierre opened an investigation.