The accident aircraft photographed in 2010 (Photo Jeff (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0))
A dramatic accident occurred on Friday, June 6 around 2:30 p.m. at Air Base 721 in Rochefort-Saint-Agnant, France. The Morane-Saulnier MS.733 F-AZXU crashed, resulting in the death of Alexandre Fritz, a former military pilot with 30 years of service.
He was performing a flight demonstration on the occasion of the graduation ceremony of the promotion class at the Non-Commissioned Officer Training School of the French Air and Space Force (EFSOAAE) in Rochefort.
A witness told Sud-Ouest that “the plane tried to turn around and suddenly stalled, from a height of 300 meters. Then there was a loud boom.” The exact causes of the accident are not yet known, and an investigation is underway.
We extend our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of Alexandre Fritz.
Sources:
- Rochefort: A pilot dies in a plane crash | Sud-Ouest (in French)
- A former MS.733 “Alcyon” training aircraft crashed near Rochefort air base | Opex360 (in French)
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ad news… My thoughts are with his family and loved ones. The meeting pilots fly for our pleasure, we fan of old planes. We must pay tribute to them. I hope that these friends pilots will make for him a ‘missing training » in his memory. Happy landings Alexandre Fritz up there in the paradise of meeting pilots.