Two people aged 58 and 26 died Tuesday afternoon after their microlight crashed into a chalet in Méribel-les-Allues in Savoie, the department prefecture said.
The accident, which occurred around 5 p.m., involved, in addition to the aircraft, a two-seater paraglider. The machine crashed “at roof level” of the house, she said in a press release.
Aged 58 and 26, the two occupants of the ULM were killed instantly. The two paragliders emerged “unharmed” from the accident, the “precise circumstances” of which remain to be determined “as part of the judicial investigation”, added the prefecture.
-The chalet on which the ULM crashed was “unoccupied” at the time of the accident, indicated for their part the firefighters, who “extricated” the victims of the wreck after a “delicate progression due to the fragility of the structure” after the accident.
A medical-psychological emergency unit was also set up to take care of people who witnessed the accident, as well as the relatives of the two victims, reports Dauphiné Libéré.
