A private plane ‘carrying French passengers’ smashes into an empty office building in suburbs of Milan, killing eight people on board ‘including boy’.
The plane was carrying six passengers and two crew members when it crashed in Milanese suburb of San Donato earlier today. The private aircraft hit a vacant two-story building in the Milan suburb killing everyone onboard, reports said.
Firefighters have said no one other than those onboard the plane were involved in the early afternoon crash.
A small private plane carrying six passengers and two crew members crashed into a vacant, two-story office building in a Milan suburb, killing everyone on board.
The LaPresse news agency initially quoted firefighters at the scene saying the pilot and all five passengers aboard were killed. But later LaPresse and other media said there were eight people aboard the flight, including a boy. Rai state TV said the passengers were believed to be French.
Fire officials couldn’t immediately be reached to confirm the nationalities or the number of people aboard the plane. They tweeted that no one other than those aboard were involved in the early afternoon crash near a subway station in San Donato Milanese, a small town near Milan. They also said several cars in a nearby parking lot were set ablaze, but apparently the vehicles were unoccupied at the time.
A thick column of dark smoke rose from the crash site and was visible for kilometers and Firefighters were extinguishing the flames of the now-charred building, which reportedly was under renovation.
Sky TG24 said the plane was flying between Milan’s Linate airport and the Italian island of Sardinia.
