Two people died after a light tourist plane crashed in Val Thorens (Savoie) on Thursday.
The victims would be men.
No witnesses to the crash came forward.
The ULM-type device and the victims were discovered around 4:30 p.m. by ski lift employees returning to the valley after their day's work, says
Le Dauphiné Libéré
.
They saw the aircraft returned to the ground at an altitude between 2,200 and 2,400 m, below the altisurface of the station where various planes land.
Employees alerted the emergency services.
The Dragon 73 and Choucas 73 helicopters were mobilized.
No information on victims
However, the rescuers could only confirm the death of the two occupants of the passenger plane.
The identity of the latter and the aerodrome from which they took off were not communicated by the local authorities.
The investigation was entrusted to the gendarmes of the air transport brigade of Chambéry (Savoie).
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