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A small plane crashed into a vacant building near Milan, killing all eight people aboard the flight, according to multiple outlets.
On Sunday, the aircraft took off from Milan’s Linate city airport and was headed for the island of Sardinia before it crashed into an empty two-story office building soon after takeoff, theAssociated Pressreported.
Petrescu was operating the plane — which was identified as a single-engine Pilatus PC-12 — at the time of the accident,The Washinton Postreported.
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Eyewitnesses who saw the accident told Italian media that they heard the plane’s engines stop and then saw the aircraft on fire before it dove into the building.
“I saw something flying in the air, and then a loud noise; it was very scary,” Andrea Speciale toldCorriere della Serain a televised interview, perThe New York Times. “It was already flying low when it dove and crashed.”
Another onlooker told the news agency Adnkronos, per theTimes, that he saw the bodies of a young boy and an adult on the ground when he heard a loud noise outside his shop.
Milan Prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano told reporters at the scene of the accident that the plane didn’t send out an alarm and the flight recorder had been retrieved, the AP reported. She also said the plane was on its flight until “a certain point, then an anomaly appeared on the radar screen and it plunged.”
No other casualties or injuries, aside from the eight who were aboard the flight, have been reported. An investigation into the crash is currently taking place.
source: people.com
