According to local police, a small passenger plane of the Jodel D140 type crashed near the commune of Les Adrets in the department of Isère around 4.50 pm. The aircraft belonged to a flying club and had just taken off from an airport near the city of Grenoble, about 30 kilometers south-west of Les Adrets.
During the recovery of the plane, five charred bodies were found, according to police. They could not be identified. Sixty firefighters were deployed in the salvage operation. The cause of the accident is not yet known.