A regional official in western France says four people died when their small tourist aircraft collided in midair. Eleonore Lacroix of the Charente-Maritime regional government said the dead included a 20-year-old woman who was piloting a Cessna with the help of a flight instructor who was instructing her remotely from the control tower of a nearby airfield.
The pilot of the other aircraft, also a Cessna, and his two passengers also perished in Saturday's collision, at the Rochefort airfield. Lacroix described local weather conditions as ``ideal.' An investigation into the collision has been opened. Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau, who was in the region for a conference, visited the scene of the accident.
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