Tourist family of four and pilot killed as small plane crashes in French Alps

A FAMILY of four and a pilot have been killed in a tragic accident after their small plane crashed in the French Alps.

The tourist plane was reportedly on its first flight, after taking off from the Versoud airfield near Grenoble in southeast France.Emergency services found the bodies of the five people at the scene It is understood the plane crashed near the town of Isere on Saturday in the Isère region, reports have suggested.

The accident happened in the afternoon shortly after take-off from the Versoud airfield near Grenoble in southeast France, for what should have been a half-hour flight. Eye-witnesses to the crash tipped off the emergency services, who found the bodies of four adults and a child inside the plane's burnt-out wreckage.

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