Three dead in the crash of a tourist plane on the A4 motorway in Seine-et-Marne

The crash of a passenger plane on the A4 motorway in Seine-et-Marne left three people dead on Sunday June 30 in the afternoon, the gendarmerie announced. The small plane crashed at 3:45 p.m. on the central reservation of the highway, between the lanes, after hitting a high-voltage line. No vehicles were hit.

“The three occupants of the plane which had just taken off from Lognes aerodrome died,” announced to AFP the prosecutor of Meaux, Jean-Baptiste Bladier. The victims are “two men and a woman”he added. The pilot of the plane, a Cesna 172, “had held a pilot’s license since 2023 and had, a priori, a little over 100 hours of flight time under his belt”.

The Air Transport Gendarmerie was put in charge of the investigation. The office of investigations and analyzes for civil aviation safety (BEA) has also opened an administrative investigation, according to the Meaux public prosecutor’s office.