Light plane crash near Paris claims the lives of four people
According to the AFP news agency, which cited the local fire department, a light plane crashed on Sunday afternoon in Seine-et-Marne, east of Paris, killing four people.
The aircraft, a Robin DR400 monoplane that took off from Beauvais, was discovered in a field near a departmental road around 2:00 p.m.
To determine the circumstances of the crash, a judicial inquiry has been initiated.
The incident occurred around 20 kilometres from France's largest airport, Paris Charles de Gaulle.
The light aircraft was "of French origin, limited by law to visual flights at altitudes of no more than 15,000 feet," an airfield source told AFP.
It appeared to be a training flight, according to information given to AFP by the Lognes-Emerainville airfield.
A search unit from the paramilitary gendarmerie police had been dispatched to the scene, where a strong kerosene smell filled the air, according to the service.
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