Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash

Claude Guillemot, one of the five brothers who co-founded video game publisher Ubisoft, has died after his private aircraft crashed on its final approach to La Baule-Escoublac aerodrome in western France on June 19.

According to Ouest France, the Cessna 421, registered to Guillemot, departed Rennes at around 5:20pm and crashed shortly before 6:00pm near the hamlet of La Bosse, several hundred meters from the runway.

Witnesses reported seeing the aircraft drop suddenly in a steep turn before hitting the ground, igniting a fire that destroyed the plane and burned around 500 square meters of an adjacent field.

Guillemot was piloting the plane to attend a weekend gathering of aviation enthusiasts expected to host more than a hundred light aircraft.

Technical investigators from France’s Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses for Civil Aviation Safety arrived at the scene to begin reconstructing the scene.

A K-9 unit was also deployed to confirm no additional passengers were on board.

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-Dexerto