Girl survives jet crash in French Alps
| LYON
A small passenger聽jet聽crashed in a residential area in the聽French Alps聽shortly after takeoff on Monday, killing two people on board and severely injuring a young聽girl聽passenger, a local official said.
Firefighters found the聽girl聽in the wreckage, alive but suffering from multiple fractures. No one was reported injured on the ground.
The aircraft, a PRM1 twin-engined corporate聽jet, started having difficultly shortly after taking off from a small airport in the eastern town of聽Annemasse, about 5 km (3 miles) from聽Geneva, said officials.
"It hit the roof of a first house before it crashed in the yard of a neighbouring house," state official聽Pierre Molager聽told Reuters.
(Reporting Catherine Lagrange; Writing by Leigh Thomas; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
