A private plane disappeared at sea, Tuesday afternoon, off Fécamp (Seine-Maritime) with the only pilot on board. Several witnesses warned that a small aircraft had just crashed about two kilometers northwest of Fécamp. The search launched to find him was suspended Tuesday evening and should resume Wednesday morning.

The aircraft had taken off from the aerodrome of Saint-André de l'Eure (Eure) and was flying in the direction of Saint-Valéry-en-Caux (Seine-Maritime). A private plane - type DR400 - disappeared at sea, Tuesday afternoon, with a person on board, off Fécamp. Several witnesses, including the semaphore, defense post on the Fécamp coast warned the Regional Operational Center for Surveillance and Rescue (Cross) of Cape Griz-Nez, that a small aircraft had just crashed about two kilometers north -west of Fécamp.

Searches to find it were carried out thanks to a Caïman helicopter of the Belgian Air Force parked parked on the air base of Koksijde and equipped with a thermal camera of night vision, according to the maritime prefecture. "After having flown over the area several times, and without any new information, the maritime prefect of the English Channel and the North Sea decided to stop the searches around 11:20 pm," said a press release. Research should resume on Wednesday morning.