Three people died on Sunday in the accident of their tourist plane which crashed on the A4 motorway in Seine-et-Marne, without hitting any vehicles, AFP learned from police sources, the gendarmerie and the Meaux public prosecutor’s office.
The accident, which occurred at 3:45 p.m. in the town of Noisiel, according to a police source, appears to have occurred after contact between the device and a high-voltage line, we added. the police station.
The aircraft, a single-engine “Cessna 172 type (…) crashed on the A4 motorway after having, very clearly, hit a high-voltage line”, the public prosecutor’s office said in a statement released on Sunday evening.
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The accident occurred less than an hour after the plane took off from Lognes airfield, in the immediate vicinity of the motorway.
“The three people on board, two men and a woman, died,” said Meaux prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Bladier.
The highway was blocked
“The pilot, born in 1989, had held a pilot’s license since 2023 and had, a priori, just over 100 hours of flight time to his credit,” added Mr. Bladier.
The highway was blocked in both directions of traffic, we learned from a police source.
The air transport gendarmerie was tasked with investigating the case of involuntary manslaughter.
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