Andre Fernandes, a spokesman for the local emergency services, said the plane was headed for Marseilles in France. The dead included the Swiss pilot, three French passengers on the plane and a Portuguese truck driver, emergency services operational commander Miguel Cruz told The Associated Press. The private airplane crashed after taking off from the small Tires airport, which is located near the resort town of Cascais about 20 km (12.5 miles) west of Lisbon and used mainly by private aircraft. The truck driver was offloading his cargo at the supermarket’s rear cargo bay, which is about two kilometers (just over a mile) from the runway, when the plane crashed near him. The injured were shopping inside the supermarket, which is located in a residential neighbourhood, and were treated for shock and smoke inhalation. About three dozen firefighting vehicles rushed to the scene, arriving within six minutes, according to officials. Nearby houses were blackened by smoke, with nine people forced to move out of their homes.
A small Swiss-owned plane crashes in the Portuguese village of Tires, west of Lisbon, killing at least five people.