Ouest France<\/a>, Guillemot was one of two people killed in the accident on 19th June in La Baule, Brittany, France, after the Cessna 421 twin-engine \u2013 registered to Guillemot \u2013 crashed. He was 69.<\/p>\nThe report reveals that Guillemot’s family was informed of the accident later that same day, but formal identification “has not yet been possible” after the aircraft crashed near the runway.<\/p>\n
A member of La Baule flying club, Guillemot had reportedly been due to attend an aviation event that weekend.<\/p>\n
In a statement to the press, Ubisoft said: “[We] learned with great sadness of the death of Claude Guillemot, co-founder of the Group and President of Guillemot Corporation, in an accident.<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones during this difficult time. No further communication will be made at this stage.”<\/p>\n
Claude Guillemot established Ubisoft in 1986 alongside his brothers Christian, G\u00e9rard, Michel, and Yves, who currently serves as Ubisoft’s CEO. Claude was chairperson for Guillemot Corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ubisoft co-founder, Claude Guillemot, has died in a plane crash. According to Ouest France, Guillemot was one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-651398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}