The General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC) provided details of the plane accident that claimed the life of the trans-Andean politician.
The body of the former president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, was taken to the headquarters of the Legal Medical Service from the city of Valdivia, capital of the Los Ríos region, where they would perform the expertise to confirm the causes of the death.
Meanwhile, the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC) provided details of the fall of the helicopter in which he was traveling the Chilean politician and slipped in a statement: “Approximately at 2:57 p.m. [hora local] the helicopter registration CC-PHP, in the vicinity of the Ilihue sector, Lago Ranco, Los Ríos region, after takeoff and after a few minutes of flight, it capped in place”. In that sense, unofficial reports indicated that the aircraft had fallen vertically.
Likewise, it was confirmed that the helicopter had “four people on board, among whom was the former president. pineapple, who died in this unfortunate accident. The rest of the occupants of the aircraft managed to survive,” they said from the DGAC.
Who was traveling in the helicopter with Sebastián Piñera
According to official data, the rest of the occupants of the helicopter and survivors of the tragedy are Magdalena Piñera, sister of the former president; Ignacio Guerrero, and Bautista Guerrero, who by their means managed to reach the shore of the lake.
On the other hand, the information collected, for now unconfirmed, indicates that pineapple he would not have been able to remove the seat belt and would have died drowned.
As a result of the plane crash, the aircraft He sank about 25 meters into the lake, from where his body was later rescued by Navy divers. LN adds.
The helicopter was traveling in rain and poor visibility
In turn, the Chilean Navy In a recent message, he expressed how the personnel were deployed to find the former Chilean president: “Following the accident of a civil aircraft in the jurisdiction of the Port Captaincy of Lago Ranco, the deployment of all its available means in the areawith the purpose of carrying out the coordination of the emergency.”
Meanwhile, it was also confirmed that the helicopter was flying through the area in a rainy day with poor visibility.
Source: Ambito
