2021 Milan airplane crash

2021 Milan airplane crash

300px YR-PDV, the Pilatus PC-12 involved in the accident
Accident summary
Date	3 October 2021 (2021-10-03)
Summary	Under investigation
Site	San Donato Milanese, Italy
Passengers	6
Crew	2
Fatalities	8
Survivors	0
Aircraft type	Pilatus PC-12/47E
Registration	YR-PDV
Flight origin	Linate Airport, Milan, Italy
Destination	Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport, Olbia, Italy

On 3 October 2021, a Romanian private plane crashed into a building in San Donato Milanese, Lombardy, Italy. All eight occupants of the aircraft were killed, including the Romanian businessman and billionaire Dan Petrescu, the owner and pilot of the plane.

Incident

At 13:03 CEST on 3 October 2021, a small private plane carrying two crew and six passengers departed Milan's Linate Airport destined for Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport on Sardinia, both locations being in Italy. At 13:12, it crashed into a building near San Donato station in San Donato Milanese, killing all eight on board.

Aircraft

File:PC-12 YR-PDV 20.05.28 9500 Stans, 28th May 2020, a rare vistor from Romania in Stans.jpg

YR-PDV, the aircraft involved, pictured in 2020

The aircraft was a Pilatus PC-12/47E carrying the registration YR-PDV. It was registered in Romania, and arrived in Milan from Romania on 30 September 2021.

Victims

Eight people were killed during the crash: the Romanian businessman Dan Petrescu, his Romanian–French wife and their son; the others were a family of four: an Italian man, his French wife, their one-year-old child, and the child's Romanian–French maternal grandmother; and a Canadian man who was a mutual friend of both families.

Investigation

On 12 November 2021, all data contained in the Lightweight Data Recorder (LDR) of the plane recovered after its wreck were successfully downloaded at the technological laboratories of the National Agency for the Safety of Flight (ANSV). In-depth and extensive analysis carried out by ANSV of the recovered data highlighted the unavailability of data about the flight or recordings referable to the flight that ended with the accident. In fact, from the maintenance documentation acquired by ANSV, it was discovered that the aforementioned LDR was inefficient even before the flight of the accident.