This Friday, around 1 p.m., an army instructor and his student pilot were carrying out a "spin departure exercise" aboard a small Grob 120 type plane over the town of Saint -Jean d'Angély, in Charente-Maritime, when they lost control of the aircraft.
They managed to eject in time and use their parachute, before the aircraft crashed in an uninhabited area to the east of the town, located north of Saintes.
"After several attempts to regain control, the two crew members applied the backup procedures and evacuated the plane using their parachutes", indicates the Ministry of the Armed Forces in a press release, specifying that the two passengers are “unscathed and have been medically taken care of”.
The crew had departed from Air Base 709 in Cognac, and were engaged in a “maneuverability test”.
For now, the causes of this loss of control and the crash of the aircraft are not known.
The Ministry of the Armed Forces specified that the area was currently being secured.
And to add that “technical and judicial investigations are open to shed light on the reasons for this accident”.
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