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