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Sunday, 18 April 2021 (YJC)_ After a tourist plane and a microlight aircraft collided in western France, four people were killed and one was missing.
Four people were killed and one was missing after a tourist plane and a microlight aircraft collided in western France on Saturday.
The small microlight carrying two people collided with a DA40 tourist plane with three people onboard around 4:30pm (1430 GMT) in Loches in the Indre-et-Loire department.
Four bodies were recovered from the microlight and the larger plane. The larger plane had crashed into a tree in an area that was difficult to reach.
A 75-year-old was piloting the plane with two passengers aged 28 and 30, while a 66-year-old was at the controls of the microlight with a passenger aged 50. None of the people involved in the crash were related.
Around 50 firefighters were called out following the crash, while 30 police officers set up road detours around the two crash sites. The causes of the collision remain unclear.
Some suggest that the blinding late afternoon sunlight could have dazzled one of the pilots.
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