A light aircraft crashed on 27 June in Champhol, a northern suburb of Chartres in France’s Eure-et-Loir department, killing all three people on board. Local media said one of the victims was a retired French army general. The plane came down in a residential area, prompting prosecutors in Chartres to open an investigation for involuntary manslaughter. Eight days later, a German-registered propeller plane on a sightseeing flight from Oberschleißheim near Munich plunged into a forested slope at Wald im Pinzgau in Austria’s Salzburg province. All four occupants—three men and a woman believed to be German citizens—died instantly. The impact ignited a small wildfire that was contained by firefighters. Austrian police said weather conditions were good and have begun examining technical and human-factor causes. On the same day as the Austrian accident, a separate crash at the Châteauroux/Villers-les-Ormes airfield in central France claimed the life of the 53-year-old pilot of a DR-1050 single-engine aircraft. According to prosecutors, the pilot issued a distress call reporting engine failure shortly after take-off before the plane came down in a nearby field. French aviation gendarmes and local police are investigating.