https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Four people died when their light aircraft crashed into the summit of a glacier in the Swiss Alps, police said Saturday, in the latest fatal accident to hit the popular tourist region. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180728/plane-crash-in-swiss-alps-kills-four-valais Sat, 28 Jul 2018 14:54:26 +0200 plane-crash-in-swiss-alps-kills-four-valais A Swiss national was among those killed in a plane crash in Russia on Sunday, Switzerland’s foreign affairs department has confirmed to The Local. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180212/swiss-national-among-victims-of-russia-plane-crash Mon, 12 Feb 2018 13:09:33 +0100 swiss-national-among-victims-of-russia-plane-crash The pilot of the PC-7 military plane that crashed in the Swiss Alps on Tuesday has been found dead at the crash site, the Swiss army said in a statement on Tuesday evening. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170913/swiss-army-plane-crash-pilot-found-dead Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:58:40 +0200 swiss-army-plane-crash-pilot-found-dead Three people were killed when the light aircraft they were travelling in crashed on the Sanetsch pass on Sunday afternoon. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170822/three-killed-in-plane-crash-on-swiss-mountain-pass Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:47:54 +0200 three-killed-in-plane-crash-on-swiss-mountain-pass Five people died when a Swiss-registered light aircraft crashed into a supermarket warehouse in the suburbs of Lisbon on Monday, rescue services said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170418/five-dead-after-swiss-plane-crashes-in-portugal Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:25:22 +0200 five-dead-after-swiss-plane-crashes-in-portugal A passing motorist is being credited for saving the life of a pilot whose small plane caught fire after crashing into a car in the canton of Aargau on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150920/pilot-plucked-from-burning-plane-wreckage Mon, 21 Sep 2015 00:42:15 +0200 pilot-plucked-from-burning-plane-wreckage A 25-year-old man died after the glider he was piloting in a competition crashed in the municipality of Klosters in the canton of Graubünden, police said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150702/glider-pilot-dies-in-swiss-junior-championships Thu, 02 Jul 2015 23:24:03 +0200 glider-pilot-dies-in-swiss-junior-championships UPDATE: An MP from the canton of Vaud was one of two people who died in a small plane that crashed on Tuesday afternoon in France after taking off from Lausanne. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150527/vaud-mp-believed-dead-in-small-plane-crash Wed, 27 May 2015 10:01:20 +0200 vaud-mp-believed-dead-in-small-plane-crash A Swiss aviator attempting to circumnavigate the world in 20 months in a lightweight two-seater aircraft died at the weekend after crashing into a volcano in central Ecuador, officials said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150329/swiss-pilot-dies-in-ecuador-volcano-crash Sun, 29 Mar 2015 13:57:29 +0200 swiss-pilot-dies-in-ecuador-volcano-crash A British expat studying in Switzerland was identified on Wednesday as one of the victims of the Germanwings plane crash a day earlier in the southern French Alps that killed 150 people. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150325/student-at-swiss-school-among-plane-crash-victims Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:45:32 +0100 student-at-swiss-school-among-plane-crash-victims Two men died when a small plane crashed shortly after takeoff from an airfield in Yverdon-les-Bains in the canton of Vaud on Monday, police said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150223/two-men-die-in-swiss-small-plane-crash Mon, 23 Feb 2015 22:43:20 +0100 two-men-die-in-swiss-small-plane-crash A 59-year-old man flying a small Piper aircraft died after the plane crashed on Friday in a field in Bernex, a municipality in the canton of Geneva, according to media reports. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150130/pilot-dies-after-small-plane-crashes-in-geneva Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:08:00 +0100 pilot-dies-after-small-plane-crashes-in-geneva A collision between two light aircraft in the canton of Saint Gallen on Sunday afternoon left seven people with serious injuries, cantonal police said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140824/seven-injured-after-two-light-aircraft-collide Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:25:00 +0200 seven-injured-after-two-light-aircraft-collide A communications officer from Lausanne is listed among the 118 people on board the Air Algérie plane which crashed in Mali on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140725/lausanne-woman-among-flight-ah5017-dead Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:40:00 +0200 lausanne-woman-among-flight-ah5017-dead Authorities on Sunday retrieved a small plane that crashed into Lake Neuchâtel, killing the two men aboard. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140622/crashed-plane-recovered-from-lake-neuchtel Mon, 23 Jun 2014 01:28:00 +0200 crashed-plane-recovered-from-lake-neuchtel The two crew members of a Swiss army fighter jet that crashed in a mountainous area of central Switzerland on Wednesday are feared dead, the defence department said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20131023/swiss-fighter-jet-crashes-in-obwalden-alps Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:45:00 +0200 swiss-fighter-jet-crashes-in-obwalden-alps Investigators continue to probe the crash of a flight school plane that killed three men in the canton of Obwalden on Tuesday night. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130724/three-killed-in-flight-school-plane-crash Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:45:00 +0200 three-killed-in-flight-school-plane-crash Forest wardens in the southern French Alps on Tuesday recovered the lifeless body of a Swiss glider pilot after he went missing for seven days. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130703/missing-swiss-glider-pilot-found-in-french-alps Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:50:00 +0200 missing-swiss-glider-pilot-found-in-french-alps Investigators are puzzling over the crash of a light plane in the canton of Fribourg on Thursday afternoon that killed a 57-year-old pilot. https://www.thelocal.ch/20120727/swiss-pilot-killed-in-mystery-plane-crash Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:22:00 +0200 swiss-pilot-killed-in-mystery-plane-crash