Light aircraft crash in northern France: 4 die.

Posted on March 11, 2015 by bill

Orne : quatre morts dans le crash un avion de tourisme

par Rédaction de France Info mercredi 11 mars 2015 19:47, mis à jour le mercredi 11 mars 2015 à 21h12

L’avion qui s’est écrasé dans l’Orne était un appareil de type DR 400 Robin © Maxppp

Un avion de tourisme s’est écrasé dans l’Orne en Normandie en début de soirée ce mercredi. Ses quatre passagers sont morts dans l’accident.                                                                                                         A light aircraft crashed in Orne, Normandy in early Wednesday evening. It’s four passengers died in the accident.

Un avion de tourisme s’est écrasé ce mercredi vers 17h30 près d’Argentan, dans l’Orne, provoquant la mort des quatre personnes qui se trouvaient à bord. Il s’agit d’une mère et de ses trois enfants, âgés de 13, 11 et 9 ans. Selon la préfecture, l’alerte a été donnée par un témoin qui a vu l’appareil piquer en direction du sol alors qu’il était en phase d’atterrissage. Les corps sont en cours d’identification. L’avion, de type DR 400 Robin, appartenant à l’aéroport d’Argentan, a été retrouvé à 18h10, sur la commune de Vrigny. Une cellule de crise a été mise en place à la préfecture. Les circonstances de l’accident ne sont pour l’instant pas connues. Au moment du crash, il faisait beau temps.

The light aircraft crashed at 17h30 near Argentan, in the north of France. Those in the crash were a mother and her three children, aged 13, 11 and 9 years old. According to the police bureau the alert was raised by a witness who saw the aircraft dive in the direction of the ground during it’s take-off phase. The process of identifying the bodies is on-going. The aircraft, a DR 400 Robin normally parked and operating out of  Argentan airport, was recovered at 18h10 in the Vrigny townland. An accident investigation has been put in place by the police. The circumstances of the accident are as yet unknown. At the time of the crash the weather was good.

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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