Five people have died after two tourist aircraft collided in mid-air in France on Saturday afternoon.
A ULM (ultralight two-person plane) crashed into a tourist plane in Loches, Indre-et-Loire at around 4.45pm local time.
Reports claim the two people in the ULM and three passengers in the tourist plane have died.
The tourist plane had taken off from the city of Poitiers, located about 100km from Loches.
The flightpath of the ULM remains unknown at this time.
The fatal collision happened in the air over the entrance to the small city, on the Châteauroux side.
Nadia Seghier, the secretary general of the prefecture of Indre-et-Loire, said the small ULM fell near the city centre, "on the fence of a house in Loches, France Bleu reports.
The tourist plane, a DA40 type aircraft, crashed "several hundred meters away in an uninhabited area", not far from the water tower.
No one on the ground were injured.
Around 50 firefighters and 30 gendarmes rushed to the scene, alongside Photos show emergency vehicles and other cars backed up on a road while a perimeter has been set up by police to keep other motorists and pedestrians away.
Investigations to determine the cause of the accident has been launched by the Loches gendarmerie brigade.
A man, 55, and 60-year-old woman, were killed an a ULM accident in Saint-Martin-de-Londres in August.
The ULM is believed to have struck a tree and caught fire at the end of a flying club runway
