The businessman was traveling with three other people, who managed to escape alive. However, according to Radio Bio-Bío, Piñera would not have been able to unfasten his seat belt.
The former president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, died this Tuesday after the helicopter he was traveling in crashed into Lake Ranco, in the Los Ríos Region, in the south of the country.
The businessman was traveling with three other people, who managed to escape alive. However, according to Radio Bio-Bío, Piñera could not have unbuckled his seat belt and died from drowning.
Piñera, 74 years old, was president of the South American country in the periods 2010-2014 and 2018-2022. His keen sense of business, in addition to his controlling and obsessive temperament, although it made him the center of several controversies, allowed him to amass a heritage of about 3 billion dollars that even took him to the famous Forbes list.
The government of President Gabriel Boric reported that the official announcement will be made after the completion of the Navy’s expertise. However, they confirmed that the aircraft ended up submerged at 40 meters deep.
According to the Chilean newspaper La Tercera, Carabineros received a report at 2:57 p.m., reporting the accident. The first to arrive at the scene of the accident were the uniformed police and the Navy.
According to the first reports, the former president was traveling back after visiting his friend, the businessman Joseph Cox.
Source: Ambito
