Three people have been killed in a plane crash in western France. One of them was the well-known French television journalist Gérard Leclerc. This would have been the pilot.
The plane crashed near Lavau-sour-Loire near Nantes in western France on Tuesday. According to the media, the sports plane disappeared from the radar for a long time and then crashed into the Loire. Initially, only one of the victims could be recovered. Experts from the aviation authority want to investigate the scene of the accident on site.
Appreciation of journalists
Several media reports that the TV journalist Gérard Leclerc would have been the pilot of the plane – which was confirmed by the journalist’s last employer. The former president of France, François Hollande, as a great political journalist, paid tribute to the victim. The newspaper “Le Parisien” reports that the daughter of former French Senate President René Monory was also a passenger on the plane.
Source: Krone
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