A total of 5 people, including 4 members of the same family, were tragically killed when a tourist plane crashed into a mountain in France.
Rescue officials say all on board, including four members of the same family, were killed when a tourist plane crashed in the Isère region of the French Alps on Saturday.
The crash happened around 5pm local time shortly after take-off from Versailles Airport near Grenoble in southeastern France.
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Eyewitnesses reported the crash to emergency services, who found the bodies of four adults and a child in the wreckage of the plane.
More than 100 emergency services personnel, including about 60 firefighters and 40 gendarmes, and a drone team were involved in the rescue operation.
The crashed plane was revealed to be a small Jodel D140 type passenger plane. Grenoble prosecutors have ordered an investigation into what happened, regional officials said.
