The victims are a 76-year-old instructor, president of the ULM club at the airport near Puy-en-Velay, and one of his students, 55, who was completing his training, said the gendarmerie.
An instructor and his passenger were killed Sunday in the fall of their ULM shortly after taking off from Puy-Loudes airport, in Chaspuzac (Haute-Loire), we learned from concordant sources.
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“The two men died around 9 a.m. after the aircraft hit a building used as a municipal technical room located slightly below the airport platform“, told AFP Michel Joubert, mayor of Chaspuzac.
The victims, from Haute-Loire, are a 76-year-old instructor, president of the ULM club at the airport near Puy-en-Velay, and one of his 55-year-old students who was completing his training, said the gendarmerie.
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For its part, the Puy-en-Velay public prosecutor’s office indicated that it had entrusted the Air Transport Gendarmerie Brigade (BGTA) of Clermont-Ferrand and the Research Bridage of Puy-en-Velay with an investigation which should determine the causes. of the fall of the aircraft.