Two tourists, a Belgian and a Dutchman, were killed in the crash of their glider Tuesday evening in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, near Sisteron, it was reported Wednesday at the prosecutor's office and relief, which confirm information from the daily La Provence .
The cause of the accident is unexplained
The two-seater glider that took off from Sisteron-Vaumeilh airfield crashed at an altitude of 1,200 meters above sea level on the territory of Valernes, in a forested area near the summit of the Hungarian rocks. The alert was given around 9 pm on Tuesday by the Lyon Relief Coordination Center (RCC). The cause of the accident is unexplained for the moment. The two victims are two tourists passing through the region, a 64-year-old Belgian, the pilot of the aircraft, and his passenger, a 67-year-old Dutchman.
The judicial investigation conducted by the prosecutor's office of Digne-les-Bains was entrusted to the brigade of gendarmerie of air transport of Marseille-Provence, the research section of the gendarmerie of Roissy and the IRCGM, the Institute of scientific police of the Gendarmerie of Pontoise.