A passenger has been seriously injured after a bridal bouquet brought down a small plane in Italy.
The accident happened after a bride and groom hired the plane to fly by the wedding party and drop the wedding bouquet to a line of female guests, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported.
Forty-four-year-old Isidoro Pensieri had the job of throwing the bouquet out the window.
But trouble struck when the flowers were sucked into the plane's engine, which caught fire and was destroyed.
The stricken plane lost altitude and crashed into a hostel in the town of Suvereto, near Livorno, north-west of Rome.
Pensieri suffered multiple fractures and head injuries in the crash, and was taken to hospital by helicopter. Fifty people in the hostel and the pilot escaped without injury.
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