Footage appears to show horrifying moment a tourist plane nose dives and crashes

This is the horrifying moment a tourist plane nose dives and crashes yards from houses in the French Alpes - killing three. The incident happened on Wednesday morning, shortly before 11am local time (10am BST) near Chambéry Airport, Voglans. Shocking CCTV footage shows the aircraft hurtling into the ground as debris flies up into the air. The Savoie prefecture has confirmed the deaths of two women and one man in the plane crash. Witnesses said they saw the aircraft drifting sideways for several minutes over the Leysse River. 'We heard a huge noise that was nothing like that of a normal plane, then it crashed,' said a local resident. The Savoie prefecture, Vanina Nicoli, said: 'The firefighters from the Savoie departmental fire and rescue service, the SAMU (emergency medical services) and the Chambéry air transport gendarmerie brigade, and units from the national gendarmerie group are currently on site.