An instructor and his passenger were killed this Sunday in the fall of their ULM shortly after taking off from Puy-Loudes airport, in Chaspuzac (Haute-Loire). “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,” said 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. According to Le Progrès, the shock was such that the emergency services, dispatched to the scene, could only note the death of the two men.
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.
Five people, including two children aged 11 and 14, were killed on Saturday in the crash of a tourist plane in Isère, without the circumstances yet being known.