The crash took place this Monday morning at 8:29 a.m. in the town of La Bretonnière-la-Claye in Vendée. A passenger plane crashed into the wall of a house. The toll is heavy: two deaths.
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A dislocated carcass was what the emergency services discovered when they arrived at the scene of the tragedy. The crash occurred at 8:29 a.m. this Monday morning in the town of Bretonnière-la-Claye in Vendée. The pilot and one person died in the crash.
According to the first testimonies collected by our team on site, the tourist plane took off from the Luçon-Chasnais aerodrome. The device apparently suffered a technical problem and fell on the wall of a house in a housing estate bordering the D60 which crosses the town.
Emergency services operate in two sectors, a fire zone to extinguish debris and a person rescue and victim recognition operation. The accident left two dead.
Thirty firefighters were dispatched to the scene. A mine clearance team is also present.
The authorities recommend avoiding the scene of the disaster.
