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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A collision between two light aircraft in the canton of Saint Gallen on Sunday afternoon left seven people with serious injuries, cantonal police said.
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.
