Iran Press/Europe: The small microlight aircraft was carrying two people and collided with a DA40 tourist plane, which was carrying three people onboard.
The collision occurred at around 4:30pm local time (15:30 BST) in Loches, Indre-et-Loire department, local government official Nadia Seghier said.
The secretary general added that the microlight, or ULM plane, 'landed on the fence around a house' but nobody else on the ground was injured.
All five passengers onboard the two planes involved have died.
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