Brescia: Incredible video shows moment light plane crashes nose first into highway, killing two
The horrifying moment a plane nose-dived onto a highway has been caught on camera.
Two people were killed when the ultralight aircraft ran into trouble and plunged from the sky onto the busy road in Italy’s Brescia region on Tuesday.
The plane was incinerated in the resulting fireball and both the pilot and passenger were killed instantly.
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The video shows a passing car and van on the Corda Molle ring road driving were also hit in the disaster, with two motorists receiving non-life threatening injuries.
The highway was shut down as firefighters bought the blaze under control.
An investigation has been launched to examine the circumstances around the crash.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Brescia has opened a case for manslaughter following the incident, according to Giornale di Brescia.
The tragedy is the latest in a spate of recent air disasters.
At least 29 people, most of them children, were killed when a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into a college and school campus in Dhaka earlier this week. The pilot was among those who died in the crash.
More than 50 people, including children and adults, were hospitalised with burns, a doctor at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery told reporters.
The crash occurred at the Milestone School and College in Dhaka’s northern area of Uttara.
And on June 12, 242 passengers and crew and 19 people on the ground died when a London-bound Air India plane crashed 30 seconds after take-off from India’s Ahmedabad Airport.
Investigations into both crashes are now underway.
