This archive report was first published on 4 October 2021.
On October 3, 2021, a small plane crashed into an empty building in the outskirts of Milan, Italy, killing all eight people on board.
The Italian authorities confirmed that the six passengers and two crew members died in the crash, which occurred just south of Milan, minutes after taking off from Milan Linate Airport.
According to the Italian news media, the pilot was a Romanian billionaire on vacation with his family and friends, and several of those killed had dual citizenship. One passenger was reportedly a young boy.
Italy's air traffic controller, ENAV, lost radio and radar contact with the plane a few minutes after it took off, and the plane did not send out any alarm, the public prosecutor, Tiziana Siciliano, said.
Residents of the area reported hearing the engines of the plane stop and seeing fire before the plane dove into a two-story building that was undergoing restoration.
‘I saw something flying in the air, and then a loud noise; it was very scary,’ Andrea Speciale, 19, a student, told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera in a televised interview.
