Tourist Plane Crash Kills Five in France

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May 22nd, 5:27am

Asharq Al-Awsat

French gendarmes block access to a road in southeastern France, September 6, 2012. REUTERS/Robert Pratta

Five people, including four members of the same family, were killed in a tourist plane crash in the French Alps on Saturday, rescue services said. The accident happened in the afternoon shortly after take-off from the Versoud airfield near Grenoble in southeast France, for what should have been a half-hour flight, AFP reported. Eye-witnesses to the crash tipped off the emergency services, who found the bodies of four adults and a child inside the plane's burnt-out wreckage. Around 60 firefighters were deployed to the site to put out the fire. Grenoble prosecutors have ordered an investigation into what happened, said regional officials.

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