Par Le Figaro with AFP
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The plane’s crash is believed to have been linked to a collision with a high-voltage power line this Sunday in Noisiel. An investigation orchestrated by the air transport gendarmerie has been opened.
Three people died on Sunday in the crash of their tourist plane, a Cesna 172, it was learned. Le Figaro of the Meaux public prosecutor’s office. It crashed on the A4 motorway in Seine-et-Marne, in the direct vicinity of the Lognes-Emerainville aerodrome from which it had taken off half an hour earlier.
According to initial information, the plane would have “hit a high-voltage line”indicates the Meaux public prosecutor’s office, which specifies that no vehicle traveling on this level of the A4 was affected during the accident.
Highway blocked
“The three people on board, two men and a woman, died”continues the prosecutor of Meaux, Jean-Baptiste Bladier. He adds that “the pilot, born in 1989, had held a pilot’s license since 2023 and had, a priori, a little more than 100 hours of flight time to his credit”This Sunday, after the crash, the highway was blocked in both directions of traffic, we learned from a police source.
The Meaux public prosecutor’s office has ordered the opening of a blatant investigation into involuntary homicide, the investigations of which are entrusted to the research section of the air transport gendarmerie. At the same time, the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) also opened an administrative investigation, specifies the Meaux public prosecutor’s office.
A similar plane accident had already occurred on July 28, 2023, at the Lognes-Emerainville airfield. A small tourist plane had missed its landing on the runway, and had ended up embedded in a guardrail of the A4 motorway. Of the three people on board, only the pilot had been slightly injured.
