An ultralight aircraft crashed in Ponteventuno, a town in the Municipality of Curtatone in Mantua, not far from the local airfield.
The toll is one dead and three injured.
According to initial information, the four, two men and two women, residing in the Verona area, had rented the aircraft, a Cessna, at the airfield and were returning.
On the spot the firefighters of Mantua, the carabinieri of Mantua and Curtatone and the staff of 118.
The three wounded who were inside the ultralight aircraft were hospitalized in red code in the Poma hospitals of Mantua, Cremona and the Civilians of Brescia.
They are all polytraumatized and their conditions are defined as serious.
The National Agency for Flight Safety (ANSV) "has ordered the opening of a safety investigation and the dispatch of its own investigator" to the scene of the accident.