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Updated · Newsday · Jun 28Skydiving Plane Crashes Near Nancy, Killing All 11 on Board
3 articles · Updated · Newsday · Jun 28Summary
- 11 people died when a skydiving plane crashed near Nancy at about 11 a.m. local time on Sunday, regional prefect Yves Séguy said.
- Emergency services reached the site immediately as authorities began collecting witness statements to determine how the aircraft went down.
- The plane belonged to a parachutist school and had taken off from Nancy-Essey airfield, according to earlier local reports.
- Those killed included the pilot, five students and five instructors, making the crash a total loss for everyone aboard.
Insights
With France's investigators now skipping some fatal crashes, will the real cause of this skydiving tragedy be uncovered? After the Airbus manslaughter verdict, does this latest crash expose a systemic safety crisis in French aviation?