Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft, dies in plane crash

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Claude Guillemot, one of the five Guillemot brothers who co-founded French publisher Ubisoft, has died in a plane crash.

Reported by Oest-France (via Kotaku), a Cessna 421 light aircraft crashed in the French commune of La Baule-Escoublac, within the Northwestern department of Loire-Atlantique, on Friday afternoon.

According to reports from Loire-Atlantique's SDIS 44 fire and rescue service, Guillemot was one of two people killed after the aircraft crashed near the La-Baule aerodrome, alongside the aircraft's owner and operator.

The mayor of La Baule, Franck Louvrier, issued a statement following the crash. "It was a Cessna 421, a twin-engine propeller, with eight seats," Louvrier said. "The plane was on approach for the landing phase, when, according to witnesses, it made a turn and crashed."

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