French aviation billionaire Olivier Dassault, pilot die in helicopter crash
Olivier Dassault, 69, was heir to a powerful family business empire that made Falcon private jets and Rafale fighter planes and owned many other businesses including Le Figaro newspaper.
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PARIS: A French billionaire aviation industrialist and member of parliament has died in a helicopter crash along with the pilot, authorities said.
Olivier Dassault, 69, was heir to a powerful family business empire that made Falcon private jets and Rafale fighter planes and owned many other businesses including Le Figaro newspaper.
A judicial inquiry for eventual manslaughter charges is under way after Sunday’s crash in the town of Touques in Normandy, according to the regional prosecutor’s office in Lisieux.
A helicopter that crashed killing Olivier Dassault, the heir to the Dassault aircraft-making family, and his pilot had taken off from an area it did not normally use because the billionaire wanted to
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France s political class has been paying tribute to MP Olivier Dassault, an heir to Dassault Aviation, a leading French plane manufacturer, who was killed Sunday in a helicopter crash.
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A member of parliament in France, Olivier Dassault has died in a helicopter crash in north-western part of the country.
The accident occurred on Sunday evening, 7 March, in Normandy where he had a holiday home, according to police sources.
In his tribute to the billionaire MP, President Emmanuel Macron said Dassault, 69, loved France and his death would be a great loss.
Dassault was the son of industrialist Serge Dassault, whose group builds Rafale war planes and owns Le Figaro newspaper.
He was elected to the National Assembly France’s lower house of parliament in 2002 and represented the Oise area of northern France.