GA havari med en Comp Air 9 - 7 døde - AVweb

Kit Crash Kills Seven

By Russ Niles

The CEO of the world's biggest iron ore company was killed, along with his family and a hired pilot in the crash of his kit-built aircraft in Sao Paolo, Brazil on Saturday. Roger Agnelli, his wife, two grown children and their spouses died when their Comp Air 9 turboprop, which is a homebuilt aircraft in the U.S., hit two houses shortly after takeoff. The family was on its way to a wedding in Rio de Janeiro. Agnelli was considered one of the world's top executives, having turned Vale, a money-losing state-owned mineral producer, into one of the most profitable in the world. The Comp Air 9 is a strutless high-wing with a 1,000-horsepower Honeywell turboprop and seats for six passengers. It's one of 10 composite, high performance kit planes built by  the Titusville, Florida company. The airplane was registered to Agnelli personally but it's not clear if he built it himself.