Eight people died when a passenger plane hit a building shortly after departing from Milan’s Linate Airport.
A small plane crashed into an empty building in the outskirts of Milan on Sunday, and its six passengers and two crew members all died, the Italian authorities said. Police authorities said that on board were three Romanian, two French, one Canadian and two Italian citizens, but declined to reveal their identities. The Italian news media reported that one passenger was a little boy and that the pilot was a Romanian billionaire on vacation with his family and friends.. Italy’s investigative authority for civil aviation safety could not be reached immediately for comment, but the country’s air traffic controller, ENAV, said that it lost radio and radar contact with the plane a few minutes after it took off. No one was killed on the ground, Italian firefighters said.
