A small aircraft belonging to a private parachute school carrying 12 passengers crashed on Saturday in Poland, were only one person survived with severe injuries.
The Piper Navajo light aircraft had just taken off from an airfield in Rudniki near Czestochowa.
National Spokesman for the firefighters, Paweł Frątczak, said that 11 parachutists and a pilot were on board the twin engine aircraft when it took off for a training flight.
A few minutes later it crashed and caught fire in an orchard in the village of Topolów, near Czestochowa. No one was hurt on the ground, he said.
The firefighters called to the site found two dead, and one injured 40-year-old man who was conscious from the time he was found, though he suffered many injuries, including to his pelvis, according to the report.
The firefighters’ local spokesman, Paweł Liszaj, said that medical services at the site confirmed there were nine other bodies in the wreckage.