a mother and her three children were killed when a small plane she was flying crashed in a field in northwestern france yesterday the 39 year old woman, said to be an experienced flyer, had rented the aircraft from a nearby flying club and was with her two daughters and son, aged 13, 11 and nine pictures taken at the crash site today capture the twisted and broken remains of the aircraft, which went down near a farm in the small town of vrigny, near argentan tragic: the 39 year old mother and her three children, aged 13, 11 and nine, were all killed in the crash  twisted wreckage: bent and broken pieces of metal and plastic are seen at the crash site today  the alarm was raised at around 530pm after a witness saw the plane falling from the sky and rescue teams discovered the wreckage around 40 minutes later the plane, a robin dr 400 which belonged to the argentan flying club, suffered catastrophic damage in the accident and an investigation into the cause of the crash is now underway, reports corsematin a police spokesman said: 'the alert was given by a witness the plane was found at 6:10pm in the municipality of vrigny' a local official, hugues de phily, told corsematin: 'i do not know what the trajectory of the plane was the debris is all over the place unexplained: the aircraft went down in the town of vrigny, near argentan, and an investigation into the cause of the crash is now underway  'it's difficult to say how the plane was going mum was in the front' mr de phily said that flying conditions were good and added that the investigation was being entrusted to the research section of the aviation police, who are at the crash site today the mother of the family was believed to be an seasoned flyer, having flown planes for ten years the children's father was in severe shock after hearing the devastating news and was being treated at a hospital in argentan last night, reports france bleu the plane was rented from the argentan flying club and crashed in the town of vrigny  emergency services were alerted by a witness who saw the aircraft fall from the sky at around 550 pm  the mother was flying a four seater robin dr 400, like the model pictured above 
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experienced flyer crashed with two daughters and son, aged 13, 11 and 9  rented robin dr 400 went down next to a farm in the small town of vrigny  twisted wreckage was found 40 minutes after witnesses saw the plane fall  children's father said to have been hospitalised after hearing the news 