A plane has crashed into a Brazilian tourist hotspot and killed 10 family members after it clipped the chimney of a second story building and burst into flames.
The small aircraft, a Piper Cheyenne 400 turboprop, slammed into a commercial district in the city of Gramado in southern Brazil, civil defense authorities said.
It was flown by a businessman named Luiz Claudio Salgueiro Galeazzi, police confirmed, and the passengers were all a part of his family.
The aircraft crashed shortly after take-off from the nearby city of Canela, striking the building and then a house before falling onto a furniture store, the Rio Grande do Sul state security secretariat said in a statement.
‘There are no survivors of the plane,’ Cleber dos Santos Lima of the state civil police said.
CCTV images from a nearby car park have been posted online showing the moment the plane turned into a fireball after crashing into the building.
Members of the public can be seen leaving shops and their cars to watch on in shock as the fiery plane lights up the sky before falling to the ground.
Thick plumes of smoke were then sent into the air as the inferno continued to roar on, before it was put out by local fire service crews.
At least 17 people were injured on the ground, two of them seriously, while several others were treated for smoke inhalation.
