The search work of the ambulance aircraft that suffered an accident in Curacaví on Wednesday night continues.
As reported by the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC) the plane became injured while making a flight from Santiago to Arica.
In detail, the Private Model aircraft Piper Cheyenne IIwas lost in the vicinity of the El Roble hill, when he moved about 10,000 feet.
It is a plane CC-CC registration which left the Arturo Merino Benítez airport at about 7:00 p.m. A few minutes after his trail was lost.
In total, six people were aboard the plane, it is the Pilot, a co -pilota patient with his companion and medical staffamong them a doctor and a nurse.
Although the causes of the accident are unknown, according to the T13, the Metropolitan Presidential Delegation reported that, according to the latest communications emanating from the plane pilot, the aircraft would have indicated that the propeller had “ice formations.”
The mayor of Curacaví, Christian HernándezHe pointed out that in a hill he would be “the last point of connection with the plane.”
“It is an area in steep extremes, everything indicates that the point where contact with the plane is lost is in the hills, on the hillside, and according to the information provided by some locals in the sector, they indicate that access to access to from Tiltile could even be easier,” he said.
In addition, the communal chief said that during the night “throughout the area of Curacaví, He felt a gigantic rumble, that most attribute to the rain, a thunder. “
“After hearing the story of a neighbor who lives up, in Las Lomas del Cerro, he says that the rumble would have emerged in that area,” he said.
Regarding the search, during the night Hernández said that, although there was a point located in the GPS “it is distant, very distant from the point to where we managed to access.”
Throughout the night a DRON WITH NIGHT VISIBILITYwhile emergency teams are deployed in points of interest such as the provinces of Chacabuco and Melipilla.
First thing on Thursday, the Under Secretary of the Interior, Victor Ramosand the presidential delegate RM, Gonzalo Duránhave a meeting with the search teams to monitor the work of the day.
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