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Six lost in Piper Crash Near Chatel-St-Denis


What: Groupement de Vol à Moteur Lausanne Piper PA-32R-301 Saratoga SP en route from Blécherette to Ecuvillens.
Where: Chatel-St-Denis, near Tatroz
When: April 28, 2012
Who: 6 aboard, 6 fatalities
Why: Four men and two women died when their Piper apparently stalled and crashed in a field near Chatel-St-Denis. The plane circled low over the village before crashing. They were about thirty minutes out of Lausanne-Blécherette.

50 firefighters responded to the scene and a team of psychologists.

The plane is a total loss. The unidentified remains were taken to the University Center of Legal Medicine in Lausanne

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