France plane crash leaves two Brits dead after their light aircraft smashed into another mid-air

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France plane crash leaves two Brits dead

TWO British citizens died today when the light plane they were travelling in collided with another UK-registered plane in the South of France.

The horrific collision took place at around 12.45pm on Wednesday over the high mountain Maddalena Pass, on the Alpine border with Italy.“There were two British citizens on board, one aged 18 and the other 37,’” said an investigating source. “The pilot of the second aircraft was also British and managed to land nearby, and is still alive,” the source added, saying the crash scene was at 9100ft.

 

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