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NANCY, France — <\/span>A skydiving plane crashed in northeastern France on Sunday, killing all 11 people on board, authorities said.<\/p>\n The plane suffered a malfunction and “fell almost vertically” soon after taking off from the Nancy-Essey airfield on the outskirts of the city of Nancy, the region’s prefect, Yves S\u00e9guy, said.<\/p>\n It crashed on the edge of a built-up area near the airfield, he told broadcaster BFM-TV.<\/p>\n “Had it occurred just a few dozen meters away, the accident could have caused collateral casualties,” S\u00e9guy, prefect of the Meurthe-et-Moselle region, said.<\/p>\n The plane banked to the left after it took off and crashed less than a minute later near houses, according to the flight tracking service Flightradar24.<\/p>\n The dead included five parachuting instructors, five clients and the pilot, according to L’Est R\u00e9publicain, a local newspaper.<\/p>\n Police cordoned off the crumpled wreckage.<\/p>\n READ ALSO | <\/strong>12 dead in crash of plane on skydiving outing in Missouri, authorities say<\/p>\n Flight tracking sites identified the plane as a single-engine Pilatus PC-6, a small transporter of freight, passengers and skydivers.<\/p>\n The parachutists were to have jumped as tandems, Nancy Mayor Mathieu Klein told public broadcaster France Info. Tandem jumps are skydiving experiences where two people, often an instructor and a first-time jumper, are attached together for the descent.<\/p>\n Klein said some of them had families and friends who had come to watch and saw the plane fall from the sky, causing “numerous” victims of psychological trauma.<\/p>\n Emergency services responded immediately and were providing psychological support to several relatives of the victims, S\u00e9guy said, adding that authorities were also collecting witness statements.<\/p>\n “We are deploying all available resources,” he said, including emergency medical teams, fire services, police and mental health support.<\/p>\n A resident, identified as John Curaku by BFM-TV, told the broadcaster that he was in his garden when he heard what sounded like a plane’s engine stopping, immediately followed by a bang.<\/p>\n He said he went to the crash site and “there were no signs of life,” with two of the bodies thrown a few meters (yards) from the plane.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 by The Associated Press. 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