The aircraft crashed in the building's parking lot. The pilot reported to the Pampulha Airport control tower that he was having difficulties taking off.

According to records from the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), the aircraft is an EMB-721C model, manufactured in 1979.

The aircraft has capacity for up to five passengers, in addition to the pilot, and has a maximum takeoff weight of 1,633 kilograms.

The aircraft was not authorized for air taxi operation, according to the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC). In other words, it cannot be used for commercial passenger or cargo transport for a fee, as air taxi companies do. The model is known as "sertanejo" (a term referring to the style of Brazilian country music).

The plane had departed from Teófilo Otoni, in the Mucuri Valley, with six people on board. Upon landing at Pampulha Airport in Belo Horizonte , two people disembarked and one, Hemerson, boarded.

The aircraft then took off again with five people on board, bound for São Paulo. The group were partners in the company Uaitag, which operates in the technology and card sector.

Businessman Leonardo Berganholi , 50, died this Monday (4), after succumbing to injuries sustained in a single-engine plane crash that hit a residential building in Belo Horizonte . The information was confirmed by the Minas Gerais State Hospital Foundation (Fhemig).

Leonardo's son, 25-year-old Arthur Schaper Berganholi , was also on board, but was rescued and taken in serious condition to Hospital João XXIII along with 53-year-old Hemerson Cleiton Almeida , who was also on the plane.

Pilot Wellington Oliveira , 34, and Fernando Moreira Souto , 36, son of the mayor of the city of Jequitinhonha, died at the scene.