BREAKING NEWS: Five Americans dead in private jet crash in south of France
By Peter Allen In Paris
PUBLISHED: 16:02, 13 July 2012 | UPDATED: 16:05, 13 July 2012
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Five Americans are believed to have been killed in a private jet crash today in the south of France.
A Gulfstream IV with six people on board came down at Castellet airport in a fiery blaze, between Marseille and Toulon, said a source at the town's airport.
'Efforts were made to free passengers from the jet, but it appears that five of the six have died,' said the source.
Accident: A private jet has crashed in flames at the end of a runway in the south of France and five people are feared dead (file photo)
Accident: A private jet has crashed in flames at the end of a runway in the south of France and five people are feared dead (file photo)
Scene: The accident happened at Castellet airport, between Marseille and Toulon
Scene: The accident happened at Castellet airport, between Marseille and Toulon
‘All are thought to be Americans.’
Three of the people on board are believed to be crew members.
It is similar to an incident in 1995 when another Mystere Falcon 20 crashed on take-off at Le Bourget airport just north of Paris, killing all ten people on board.
The dead are two men aged 24 and 61 and a woman aged 30, the source said, adding that the plane crashed on landing at the private airport at Castellet after flying from Nice.
'The plane broke in two, one bit ended up in the lake at the end of the runway and the other bit caught fire,' an air safety official said.
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