Eleven people were killed when a plane crashed in eastern France on Sunday. The civilian aircraft, operated by a parachuting school, was carrying five students and five instructors, local authorities told news outlets. All 10 passengers, along with the pilot, were killed in the crash in the town of Tomblaine. The president of a regional nurses’ organization in France told domestic news channel BFMTV that the victims were “half nurses and half instructors” and that the trip was a “hazing ritual.” The plane also came within meters of barreling into a sprawling shopping center and densely populated urban area. “Give or take a few meters and the accident could have caused collateral casualties,” Yves Seguy, an official in the Meurthe-et-Moselle region, said, according to Sky News. Throughout Sunday, medical personnel, politicians, and relatives of the victims gathered at the site of the crash, one of the deadliest small-aircraft accidents in French history.
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