Five die after tourist plane, microlight collide in France

Published October 11, 2020
A man stands as French gendarmes and firemen work next to the site where an ULM crashed in Loches, France, on October 10. — AFP
A man stands as French gendarmes and firemen work next to the site where an ULM crashed in Loches, France, on October 10. — AFP

RENNES: Five people were killed after a tourist plane and a microlight aircraft collided in western France on Saturday, the local government said.

The small microlight carrying two people collided with a DA40 tourist plane with three people onboard around 4:30pm in Loches in the Indre-et-Loire department, local government official Nadia Seghier said.

Published in Dawn, October 11th, 2020

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