MADRID, Aug 26, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Seven people including two children were
killed in a mid-air collision between a helicopter and a light aircraft over
Spain’s Mallorca island on Sunday, authorities said.
The two aircraft crashed over the central town of Inca at 1:35 pm (1135
GMT), the regional Balearic Islands government said on its Twitter account.
Everyone aboard the two aircraft — two on the plane and five on the
helicopter — perished in the crash, a police spokesman said.
A couple and their two children were aboard the helicopter along with the
pilot, the spokesman told AFP.
The helicopter was registered in Germany, “which doesn’t necessarily mean
the occupants were of this nationality,” he said, stressing that an
investigation into the victims’ nationalities was still under way.
Police said the two aircraft crashed into a field.
Mallorca and the other Balearic Islands are popular with both Spanish and
foreign tourists, especially in the summer season.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez expressed condolences to the victims’
families, and said in a tweet that he was “following the news from…
Mallorca with concern.”