{"id":522677,"date":"2026-06-28T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/522677\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:42:08","slug":"11-dead-as-skydiving-plane-crashes-in-northeastern-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/522677\/","title":{"rendered":"11 dead as skydiving plane crashes in northeastern France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A skydiving plane has crashed in northeastern France, killing all 11 people on board.<\/p>\n<p>The plane, which belonged to a parachutist school, crashed in the town of Tomblaine, the local prefecture said.<\/p>\n<p>\u200cThe pilot and all 10 passengers &#8211; \u2060five students \u200cand five instructors &#8211; died in the accident, \u2060Yves Seguy said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were no bystanders among the victims,&#8221; he added, speaking at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FRANCE-CRASH-REUTERS\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0024999e-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe cause of the incident was not immediately clear<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft, registered in Germany, crashed in a grassy area near the runway of the Nancy-Essey aerodrome, close to a residential area and two roads, an AFP journalist reported.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the incident was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>Medical and psychological support teams were caring for relatives of the victims who were present at the airfield, as well as other witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>A technical investigation had been opened, said Amaury Lacote, deputy public prosecutor in the eastern city of Nancy.<\/p>\n<p>Police urged people on the social media platform X to &#8220;strictly avoid&#8221; the area around the airport to allow emergency services access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A skydiving plane has crashed in northeastern France, killing all 11 people on board. The plane, which belonged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-522677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}