Accident to the Robin DR400 registered F-GGQQ on 07/12/2025 at Bethmale

Excerpt from the preliminary report:

The pilot, who was also an instructor in the flying club, was carrying out a local flight, at sunset, out of Saint-Girons - Antichan aerodrome heading for the Pyrenees. He was accompanied by three passengers - a pilot sat in the front left-hand seat and two student pilots. It was a pleasure flight and not an instruction flight.
The pilot reported that he was backtracking runway 33. Take-off was at 17:19 in a south-easterly direction.
At around 18:00, concerned that F-GGQQ had not come back, the club members alerted the emergency services.
The wreckage of the aeroplane was located in the bottom of a valley at an altitude of around 2,000 m. Its rapid location was made possible by an alert system on one of the occupants' smartphones which triggers in the event of an accident.