MADRID: Authorities said seven people including two children died in a midair collision between a helicopter and a light aircraft over Spain’s Mallorca island on Sunday.
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 light plane and five on the helicopter — perished in the crash, police said.
A couple and their two children were aboard the helicopter along with the pilot, police 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.
(Agencies)
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