Roger Agnelli , 56, one of the most prominent businessmen in Brazil , died on Saturday after the plane he was traveling in crashed into house one minute after takeoff from an airport in the city of Sao Paulo.
His wife and two children also were inside the aircraft owned by tycoon, which killed seven people in total , according to local media reported. The aircraft crashed into a residence where there were six people, one of them wounded but out of danger and the others were unharmed.
The employer directed the Vale between 2001 and 2011 and contributed greatly to turn the company into the second largest mining company in the world and the largest producer of iron and nickel on the planet. In the ranking of the best CEOs published by the magazine "Harvard Business Review" in 2013, Agnelli ranked fourth , behind Apple CEO, Steve Jobs , Jeff Bezos, Amazon and Yun Jong-Yong, group Samsung.
Agnelli took over the management of mining giant Vale in 2001, four years after privatization. At that time, the company had a market value of 10,000 million dollars. With the intervention of the entrepreneur , the business diversified, entered 30 countries and gained a market value of 180,000 million . He left office in 2011 amid pressure from the government of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.
Agnelli and his family joined the unfortunate list appears to be the "curse" of the rich and their private jets . In January, the leonine businessman Rogelio Fernandez was killed with his wife and two daughters in a plane crash while traveling from an airport of Alicante to Leon. John John Kennedy, the youngest son of JFK and his wife also they died in similar circumstances , as part of the Missoni family and members of other great dynasties like the Rockefellers and Onassis.
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