The pilot and ten passengers, five students and five instructors from a parachutist school, died when the plane went down shortly after taking off from Nancy-Essey airfield in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department.
Eleven people have been killed after a civilian aircraft carrying skydivers crashed in the town of Tomblaine in eastern France, local authorities have confirmed.
The pilot and ten passengers, five students and five instructors from a parachutist school, died when the plane went down shortly after taking off from Nancy-Essey airfield in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department.
According to BBC, the aircraft came down in a built-up area near a shopping centre, though the prefect of the department, Yves Seguy, confirmed that no bystanders were injured in the incident.
French Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot, who travelled to the scene alongside Interior Minister Laurent Nunez, described the crash as a "terrible tragedy."
