At least one person was killed in a plane crash that occurred Tuesday evening in Charbuy, near the Auxerre-Branches aerodrome.
Help was called shortly after 6:00 p.m. A small two-seater plane crashed in a field, on the edge of the forest, a few hundred meters from a house.
A 54-year-old man has died
According to witnesses, the aircraft, which seemed to be in the landing phase, caught fire on touching the ground. Findings that do not confirm the prosecutor of the Republic of Auxerre, Hugues de Phily, who specifies however that: “The victim is a 54-year-old man. At the present time, we do not know if he was alone in the aircraft or if he was accompanied by another passenger”.
The specialists of the air transport brigade are mobilized
The circumstances of the accident also remain to be determined with precision. The first observations are made difficult by the night. The investigation was entrusted to the territorial brigade of the gendarmerie of Auxerre, with the support of specialists from the air transport brigade of the gendarmerie.