According to initial investigations, the aircraft crashed this Wednesday, June 26 due to an engine failure. The accident caused the death of two people, of Ukrainian nationality.
The day after the fatal crash of a helicopter in Saint-Raphaël (Var), the first investigations carried out by investigators allow us to consider an accident caused by an engine failure of the aircraft, indicates the Draguignan prosecutor to BFM Toulon Var this Thursday June 27.
Witness hearings are still in progress, continues the prosecutor. The bodies of the victims were sent to the Nice Institute of Legal Medicine for their autopsy.
Two open investigations
On Wednesday June 26, two people, of Ukrainian nationality, died in this tourist helicopter accident in the Agay sector, near a campsite. The craft had taken off from Mandelieu earlier in the day.
Two investigations were opened. The first was entrusted to the inter-regional national police directorate in co-responsibility with the services of the air transport gendarmerie brigade, for the charge of involuntary homicide.
The second is a security investigation opened this Thursday, June 27 by the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA).
Laury Holste, with Juliette Moreau Alvarez
