On Sunday, two French fighter jets collided in mid-air during a national airshow at a military facility in southwest France, causing a horrific incident.
At around 12.40 p.m., a Rafale aircraft from the 30th hunting squadron was engaged in an incident at the 709 Cognac-Châteaubernard facility in Charente.
Both planes landed safely, however the accident that destroyed one of the planes’ top tails has being investigated.
He added that the fighter jets landed ‘without difficulty’, ‘no one was injured’ and such a collision was ‘very rare’.
Witnesses reported hearing a gunshot sound during the session and one resident in the neighbouring village of Gensac-la-Pallue said that the debris ‘damaged a roof’ before ‘falling on the pavement’.
Colonel Nicolas Lyautey, commander of the airbase, said: ‘One of the [aircraft] lost a piece of its fin, which damaged the roof of a house when it fell.’
He added that the fighter jets landed ‘without difficulty’, ‘no one was injured’ and such a collision was ‘very rare’.
Witnesses reported hearing a gunshot sound during the session and one resident in the neighbouring village of Gensac-la-Pallue said that the debris ‘damaged a roof’ before ‘falling on the pavement’.
‘It was a piece measuring around 1m40. I saw it from a distance, and there were lots of law enforcement officers around it. A neighbour sent me a photo.
‘Just as well that the occupant of the house wasn’t at home when it happened,’ The Connexion reported.
According to France 3, the Air Force press office said that ‘such an accident is extremely rare’ and the last time a similar incident occurred was in April 2010.