Disturbing surveillance footage shows tourist French Alps plane crash that killed three people

Unsettling surveillance footage shows a tourist plane slam into the ground nose-first in the French Alps in a crash that left three people dead.

Officials confirmed two women and one man were killed in the crash near Chambéry Airport in Voglans, in the Savoie prefecture just before 11 a.m. local time. Witnesses had reported the aircraft drifting sideways over the Leysse River for several minutes before its rapid descent.

“We heard a huge noise that was nothing like that of a normal plane, then it crashed,” a local resident said, according to Express.

More than 20 firefighters from the Savoie departmental fire and rescue service, SAMU (emergency medical services), the Chambéry air transport gendarmerie brigade, as well as units from the national gendarmerie group were on scene.

Savoie officials said the exact cause of the accident was not yet known and that an investigation is being conducted.

Chambéry Airport is a small international airport near Chambéry, not far from the Tarentaise Valley and some of France’s most popular ski resorts like Meribel and Courchevel.

Just four days ago, a small propeller plane originating in Germany crashed in the Austrian Alps, killing all four people on board, authorities said. The cause of that crash was also not immediately known.