Overview
- Police and fire officials said a single‑engine plane struck a restaurant in Capão da Canoa, Rio Grande do Sul, on Friday, killing all four people on board.
- Local reports named the victims as Deborah Belanda Ortolani, Luis Antonio Ortolani, aviation executive Renan Saes, and pilot Nelio Pessanha.
- Early accounts say the aircraft flew low and lost altitude after departing São Paulo with a stop in Criciúma, and one outlet identified it as a Piper JetPROP DLX.
- The restaurant was closed at the time, neighbors were evacuated, firefighters and state police put out the blaze, and the crash damaged power lines that crews later repaired.
- The bodies were sent to the forensic department in Osório for autopsies and DNA confirmation, and Brazil’s Cenipa opened an inquiry into the cause.