Authorities have confirmed that five people, all French nationals, died when a small aeroplane crashed moments after taking off from Malta International Airport shortly after 7am on Monday morning.
The Maltese government has confirmed that the flight was part of a French Customs surveillance operation, which has been taking place for the past five months and tasked with tracing routes of illicit traficking of all sorts, including human trafficking and drug trafficking.
Photo. Aircraft of type that crashed at Luqa.
