Horrifying moment plane nosedives and crashes into a motorway with cars driving through fireball aftermath in Italy

Daily Mail​

23-07-2025

At least two people were killed today when a small jet nosedived and crashed into a busy motorway in northern Italy.
Footage captured the horrifying moment in which the plane smashed into the road in Italy's Brescia province and exploded into a fireball, with vehicles forced to drive over the flames following the sudden crash.
The aircraft was completely destroyed, with no one on board surviving the accident.
The pair killed were a 75-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman, according to reports.
They are understood to have departed from the town of Gragnano Trebbiense.
Two motorists were reportedly injured when the plane exploded and were treated at a nearby hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
An inferno ripped through the site of the crash, leading to the suspension of traffic on the A21 motorway junction between Corda Molle and Ospitale.
Emergency services rushed to the scene, while firefighters contained the blaze.
An investigation has been launched to establish the cause of the tragedy.
Meanwhile, the public prosecutor's office of Brescia has opened a case for manslaughter following, local newspaper Giornale di Brescia reported.
The horrific accident comes just days after an air force fighter jet crashed into a school in Bangladesh and killed 31 people, at least 25 of them children.
The children, many aged under 12, were about to return home from class on Monday when the Chinese-manufactured F-7 BGI Bangladesh Air Force jet ploughed into their school in Dhaka and burst into flames, trapping pupils in the fire and debris.
The military said it had suffered mechanical failure.
Television footage showed fire and smoke billowing from the site of the crash as bystander are seeing trying put out the flames.
Other clips circulating on social media show crowds of students fleeing from the scene in a panic.
It also comes a little over a month after an Air India plane crashed on top of a medical college hostel in neighbouring India's Ahmedabad city, killing 241 of the 242 people on board and 19 on the ground, marking the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade.
A preliminary report into the crash found that fuel switches for the engines of the doomed Boeing 787 Dreamliner began to lose thrust and sink down moments after setting of to London from the Indian city on June 12.
In the flight's final moments, one pilot was heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking the other why he cut off the fuel.
'The other pilot responded that he did not do so,' the report by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) said.
It did not identify which remarks were made by the flight's captain and which by the first officer, nor which pilot immediately transmitted the distress call: 'Thrust not achieved... falling... Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!'
Seconds later the jet began losing height and exploded into a fireball after smashing into a hostel on the ground in Gujarat, claiming the lives of all but one passenger on board and 19 people on the ground.