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Agence France-Presse

Five people died when a Swiss-registered light aircraft crashed into a supermarket warehouse in the suburbs of Lisbon on Monday, rescue services said.
The fatalities comprised the pilot and all three passengers - a Swiss and three French nationals - who were aboard the aircraft, plus a Portuguese truck driver who was at the warehouse at the time, they said in a statement. Three other people were slightly injured.
The warehouse, operated by the Lidl supermarket chain, is about a kilometre from an aerodrome at Tires, in the district of Cascais about 20km from central Lisbon.
Two of the French victims were Marseille surgeon Jean-Pierre Franceschi, 65, and his wife Nathalie, Marseille mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin said in a statement late Monday. 
Gaudin expressed his condolences to their families and paid tribute to the “internationally recognised orthopaedic surgeon ... a leading authority in the sports world”.
A knee specialist, Franceschi had notably operated on legendary former France striker Jean-Pierre Papin, the 1991 Ballon d’Or winner, and former France and Arsenal star Robert Pires.
According to a statement issued by the aerodrome, the plane belonged to Symbios Orthopaedics, a company based near Lausanne, Switzerland that specialises in orthopaedic prosthetics.
The twin-engine Piper PA-31 plane had just taken off on a flight to the southern French city of Marseille when it crashed, hitting a truck parked at the warehouse.
About 90 firefighters mobilised to fight a blaze, which was quickly put out. A neighbouring house was also damaged.


Famed French surgeon among five killed when plane crashes into Lisbon suburbs

Firefighters work to extinguish the remains of a fire after a plane crashed into a supermarket warehouse in the Lisbon suburbs on Monday. Photo: AFP

Smoke rises behind a supermarket near Lisbon after a small plane crashed. Portuguese officials say a small plane has crashed beside a supermarket near Lisbon, killing four people on board the aircraft and one on the ground. Four people were slightly injured. (Ramiro Ribeiro via AP)

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