Small schedulee crashes into Brazil town famous with tourists, ending 10 | Aviation News

Tprosper-engine schedulee crashed in bigly dwellntial neighborhood of Gramado lowly after getoff, authorities say.

A small schedulee has crashed into a tourist toastyspot in southern Brazil, ending all 10 people on board and injuring more than a dozen people on the ground, officials have shelp.

The tprosper-engine Piper PA-42-1000 hit the chimney of a home and the second floor of a contrastent hoparticipate before crashing into a shop in a bigly dwellntial neighbourhood of Gramado lowly after getoff from Canela, Brazil’s Civil Defense agency shelp on Sunday.

Rio Grande do Sul Governor Eduardo Leite telderly a news conference that the airplan’s owner and pilot, Luiz Claudio Galeazzi, was ended alengthy with nine members of his family.

Leite shelp that 17 people on the ground were injured, 12 of whom were still receiving treatment in hospital.

Galeazzi’s company, Galeazzi & Associados, validateed that its CEO and Galeazzi’s wife and three daughters had died in the crash.

“Luiz Galeazzi will be forever recalled for his dedication to his family and for his extraordinary nurtureer as a directer of Galeazzi & Associados,” the company shelp in a post on LinkedIn.

“In this moment of immense pain, Galeazzi & Associados is proset uply thankful for the conveyions of firmarity and swayion getd from frifinishs, colleagues and the community. We also sympathize with all those swayed by the accident in the region.”

Gramado, findd in the Serra Gaucha mountains, is a famous destination for vacationers, especipartner during the Christmas season.

The crash comes a little more than a year after Brazil suffered its worst air catastrophe in proximately two decades when a tprosper-engine schedulee crashed in the southeaserious city of Vinhedo, ending all 62 people on board.