Overview
- Security video that captured the crash Friday in Capão da Canoa shows the plane dive steeply before hitting a closed restaurant.
- Local firefighters confirmed three deaths among those onboard, while multiple outlets reported four and named the victims as pilot Nelio Pessanha, Renan Saes, and business owners Deborah Belanda Ortolani and Luis Antonio Ortolani.
- No injuries on the ground were reported because the restaurant was closed, and nearby residents were evacuated as a precaution.
- Authorities identified the aircraft as a single‑engine Piper JetPROP DLX, registration PS‑RBK, which left São Paulo, refueled in Criciúma, and picked up passengers en route to a textile fair in Ibitinga.
- Fire crews extinguished the blaze and secured downed power lines that caused local outages, and Brazil’s Cenipa opened an investigation to determine why the plane lost altitude after takeoff.