THIS is the shocking moment a plane smashed into a building in a built-up city in Brazil.<br /><br />The aircraft was seen circling the Silveira area of Belo Horizonte, in the south-east of the South American country, before colliding with a low-rise building.<br /><br />The pilot and co-pilot died, according to Globo.<br /><br />The pilot was trapped in the wreckage, and three others were seriously injured, the local fire department said.<br /><br />No one in the building was injured.<br /><br />The aircraft took off with five people on board from Pampulha Airport at 12.16 pm.<br /><br />Emergency services were scrambled to the scene of the crash at 12:25 p.m.<br /><br />The pilot had reported to the Pampulha Airport control tower that he was having difficulties taking off.<br /><br />Lieutenant Raul of the Fire Department said: “It [the aircraft] hit between the third and fourth floors, in the stairwell.<br /><br />“If it had hit the sides, it could have struck some residences; those apartments were occupied.<br /><br />“What we saw was the structure of the aircraft projected inside the stairwell, without hitting any other apartments.”<br /><br />Avani Soares, who lives in the buildinthatch was hit by the aircraft and said she thought “the world had ended”.<br /><br />She told Globo: “Everything went dark, a lot of debris fell, and I thought, ‘The world has ended.’<br /><br />“On the other floor, people were screaming for help. I didn’t know what to do.”<br /><br />Ms Soares added, “Then I ran to the window because it had gone completely dark.<br /><br />“Then I saw it and said, ‘It can’t be a plane.’ There was a strong smell of fuel.<br /><br />“I just grabbed my phone and glasses, a nd went downstairs. didn’t grab anything else.”<br /><br />According to records held with the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), the aircraft is an EMB-721C model, made in 1979.<br /><br />The owner is identified as Flavio Loureiro Salgueiro.<br /><br />Investigators from the Centre for Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents have been brought in to examine the incident, according to the Brazilian Air Force
