{"id":1547,"date":"2026-06-28T22:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/2026\/06\/28\/11-dead-in-skydiving-plane-crash-in-france-video\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T22:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:18:16","slug":"11-dead-in-skydiving-plane-crash-in-france-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"11 dead in skydiving plane crash in France (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Pilatus PC-6 Porter aircraft came down on a road near Nancy on Sunday, killing everyone on board<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A plane carrying skydivers crashed in northeastern France on Sunday, killing all 11 people on board.<\/p>\n<p>A Swiss-made, single-engine Pilatus PC-6 Porter took off from the Nancy-Essey airfield and crashed shortly afterward on a road near the Auchan supermarket in Tomblaine, near the city of Nancy, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ici radio, the aircraft, which was registered in Germany, had been rented by a local company providing introductory skydiving lessons.<\/p>\n<p>The people on board reportedly included one pilot, five instructors and five trainees. Self-employed nurses were among the victims, according to the head of the local branch of the French National Nurses\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Una avioneta civil se estrell\u00f3 en el departamento de Meurthe-et-Moselle, noreste de <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Francia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Francia<\/a>, provocando la muerte de sus 11 tripulantes, seg\u00fan medios locales.<\/p>\n<p>La aeronave, que despeg\u00f3 desde el aeropuerto Nancy-Essey, cay\u00f3 cerca de la comuna de Tomblaine. <\/p>\n<p>Las v\u00edctimas son el\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZkcypV3LAk\">pic.twitter.com\/ZkcypV3LAk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David de la Paz \u6234\u7ef4 (@daviddelapaz) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/daviddelapaz\/status\/2071256083897683982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The prefect of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, Yves Seguy, told BFM TV that the crash was likely caused by a mechanical malfunction and that the plane fell from the sky rather than attempting an emergency landing. The exact cause of the incident remains under investigation, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/642251-plane-crashes-into-beijing-skyscraper\/\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>Plane crashes into Beijing skyscraper (VIDEO)<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>French Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot and Interior Minister Laurent Nunez traveled to the crash site on Sunday. Authorities have opened an investigation into the incident.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pilatus PC-6 Porter aircraft came down on a road near Nancy on Sunday, killing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}