Forced bittering in Lake Geneva
Off Corseaux, the plane is in progress
The carcass of the small tourism apparatus fell Tuesday in the lake should be recovered this afternoon.
A barge equipped with a crane is used for the operation.
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- The touring plane having bitter in Corseaux will be reassembled today by the SESE.
- The two occupants of the ultra-light survived with light injuries.
- The device is thirty meters deep in Lake Geneva.
- Curious divers were spotted near the wreck during the night.
It will not have stayed long at the bottom of the water. Only three days after theEmergency bittering of a small passenger plane Off Corseaux, the dwelling of the device should be drafted this afternoon. A delicate operation carried out by the Swiss security investigation service, in coordination with the Lacustre brigade of the Vaud cantonal police.
The wreckage resting about thirty meters deep must be drafted using a winch. It is a barge equipped with a crane that is used to carry out the operation.
Healthy and sound passengers
The device, a motorized ultra-light ICP Savannah S, had taken off from Bex Tuesday at the end of the morning. He was on the way back when, for a reason that the investigation will have to determine, he lost altitude by flying over Lake Geneva. Around 3:55 p.m., the pilot then undertook A bitter spectulular Not far from the shore that borders the port of the Pichette, on the Vevey side. By touching the water, the aircraft turned over before gradually flowing.
This 62 -year -old Vaudois and his passenger, a 31 -year -old Belgian – slightly injured – were able to get out of the cabin before being rescued by a boate. No other injured is to be deplored.
Pinched divers the same evening
If the incident has marked public minds, he also stung curiosity – even greed? – some underwater adventurers. According to our information, two divers were surprised in the vicinity of the wreckage, the same evening of the crash around 1 am.
Even if they were not illegal, “the gendarmes who patrolled in the sector identified them and asked them to avoid the site,” confirms David Guisolan, spokesperson for the Vaud police. An instruction that the latter wished to make all the boaters and users of the lake heard in order to “guarantee the smooth running of the carling -wing draft”.
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