Welsh millionaire Owain Davies among three killed as plane crashes into Swiss Alps mountain slope
From the Newshound archive · first published 19 September 2026.
A Cirrus SR22T aircraft of the type that struck a north-facing Alpine slope near Leukerbad on Tuesday, killing all three people on board.Leukerbad, the Swiss canton Valais spa town near which a Cirrus SR22T struck a mountainside roughly ten minutes after departing Sion airport, with both Swiss safety and attorney general bodies now investigating.Owain Davies, managing director of South Wales engineering firm Amcanu, who had served nearly 25 years as a helmsman with Burry Port Lifeboat and was a trustee of Wales Air Ambulance Charity since 2017.Owain Davies pictured with his son Aron, who said the family had "suffered an unimaginable loss", and his father Spencer, who founded Amcanu in Burry Port in 1975.
Owain Davies, who led engineering firm Amcanu as its managing director, died when his Cirrus SR22T aircraft struck a mountain slope in the canton of Valais on Tuesday, roughly 10 minutes after taking off from Sion airport in the Rhône Valley. He was one of three people killed in the crash near Leukerbad. A second British national was also among the dead, and formal identification of the remaining victims is continuing.
Rescue helicopters, firefighters, and local police joined the Valais Rescue Organisation in responding to the remote mountain slope.
