This Friday morning, a tourist plane took off from Saucats aerodrome around 9:45 a.m., and quickly found itself in difficulty for reasons that the investigation will have to determine.
It crashed in a wooded area, between the Gironde towns of Léognan and Martillac, near the Fives company, located on the Technopôle de Martillac.
“The provisional report shows three dead”, reports to
20 Minutes
Captain Catherine Delorme, head of communication for the Gendarmerie of New Aquitaine.
The identification of the victims is in progress, it would be two women and a man, according to AFP.
The fire under control
By crashing, the aircraft caused the start of a forest fire which was brought under control at the end of the morning this Friday, according to the firefighters of the Gironde.
Nearly 2,000 m2 of pines went up in smoke.
The investigation was entrusted to the Gironde gendarmerie group and the research section of the air transport gendarmerie.
Technical and scientific investigations are in progress on the site.
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