VALLETTA, Malta, Oct 24 2016 – A light aircraft crashed after taking off from Malta’s main airport early on Monday, killing all five people on board, officials there said, in the island nation’s worst peacetime air accident.
A military source at Malta International Airport said all five victims were French, though the French foreign ministry said it could not yet confirm that.
Television footage showed flames rising from wreckage near the runway, sending thick black smoke into the sky.
