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Summary Five Americans are believed to have been killed in a private jet crash in south of France.
A Gulfstream IV with six people on board came down at Castellet airport in a fiery blaze, between Marseille and Toulon, said a source at the towns airport.Efforts were made to free passengers from the jet, but it appears that five of the six have died, said the source.All are thought to be Americans.’Three of the people on board are believed to be crew members.It is similar to an incident in 1995 when another Mystere Falcon 20 crashed on take-off at Le Bourget airport just north of Paris, killing all ten people on board.The dead are two men aged 24 and 61 and a woman aged 30, the source said, adding that the plane crashed on landing at the private airport at Castellet after flying from Nice.The plane broke in two, one bit ended up in the lake at the end of the runway and the other bit caught fire, an air safety official said.
