Air forces across Europe suspended flights of the Airbus Group NV A400M after one of the military transport aircraft crashed near Seville, Spain, killing four people.

Britain’s Royal Air Force and Germany’s Luftwaffe both said they’d pause operations of the plane until the reasons for the crash become clear. The aircraft that went down on Saturday was several minutes into a first test flight before being delivered to Turkey. Germany has just one unit so far.

France will only permit “priority flights in operations already underway,” Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said at a meeting of European defense ministers in Lorient, western France.

Among the six people on the plane, all Spanish employees of Airbus, four were killed and two seriously injured, Airbus said. The accident occurred about 1 p.m. local time Saturday, about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) north of Seville’s San Pablo Airport. Airbus said it’s investigating the circumstances of the disaster and has dispatched a special team.

The incident is the first crash of an A400M. Television news coverage showed the aircraft, which carried the manufacturing serial number 23, completely destroyed and a large plume of black smoke rising over the scene. Photos supplied by the local government indicate the plane went down in a field, with wreckage strewn across a wide area and fire services on site to extinguish the blaze.

Airbus A400M crash prompts suspension of flights | The Seattle Times