Two dead and three injured in French flying accidents

Two micro-light aircraft collided in southern France on Saturday, killing one and seriously injuring another three people, police said.

In a separate incident hours earlier, a glider pilot was also killed when his plane crashed into a mountain in the south-eastern Alpine region.

The micro-lights, each carrying two people, collided for an unknown reason over a flying club at Albon, near Valence, as they were coming in to land, gendarmes said.

A man of 67 was killed, and those injured included a boy of 11. Two of them were flown to hospital in Lyon by helicopter with multiple injuries.

The glider pilot, a man aged 48, was killed at Ugine, in Savoie, late on Friday. The wreckage of his plane was found at a height of 1,670 metres after local inhabitants saw it fall, police said.