Emergency personnel moved tonight to the Tiltil-Curacaví area, after the loss of a Ambulance plane that made a flight between Santiago and Arica.
As reported, contact with the private aircraft model 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 That he left Santiago around 7 pm with 6 people on board, including two pilots, medical staff and a patient who was transferred to Arica.
Staff of Firefighters, Carabineros, Air Force and Health They moved to the place, to search the device.
From the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC), they reported, at 21.37 tonight, that the “CC -CCC registration aircraft, which made ambulance flight Santiago – Arica stops visualizing in radar image in vicinity of Cerro El Roble, tiltile. Airing remains lost”.
From firefighters they indicated that three units of the Fire Department of Curacaví, with support of two others of rugged rescue of Quinta Normal, moved to the place of the emergency.
Around 22.40, the Mayor of Curacaví, Christian HernándezHe pointed out that emergency teams worked to define the way in which they will advance towards the area of the alleged sinister, since it is in a difficult access sector.
“We have the assumption that the area where contact with the plane was lost, is an area of very difficult access, very remote, at a lot of height and, in addition, to access it you have to go through a very precarious path, in climatic conditions of rain,” He argued in statements at 24h.
He added that locals joined the search work to help with their knowledge of the area.
Although he highlighted the need to wait for official information and not speculate on the consequences of the emergency, he said he knows several testimonies that agree that “they would have seen the flash of light from an accident.”
From the Metropolitan Presidential Delegation They reported that delegate Gonzalo Durán and the director of Senapred Regional, Miguel Muñoz, deployed after the notice of the disappearance of the aircraft.
Meanwhile, from the National Disaster Prevention and Response Service (Senapred) They pointed out minutes later that “It is reported that an ambulance aircraft, with 6 people on board, would be missing after losing contact when the El Roble hill flew over, in the commune of Curacaví.”
He adds that “FACH search and rescue teams, Firefighters from Curacaví, Gope (of Carabineros), Samu, Senapred RM and municipal staff are deployed and in transit to the place of the last contact with the aircraft.”
In this sense, they indicated that Search work is concentrated in the Cover Country Sector, Camino Alhué, commune of Curacavíwhere witnesses would have seen the aircraft for the last time. They added that the topography of the place and weather conditions have hindered access and communications.
At 23.12, From the DGAC they confirmed that the ship crashed in the aforementioned area and that a wide search operation is underway.
In the early hours of Thursday, the regional director of Senapred, Miguel Muñoz, indicated that the official search work -including aircraft of the SErvicio of Air Force and Air Force (FACH) (FACH)– It will begin with daylight, due to the complex and steep terrain and bad weather conditions.
However, he argued that a archie With locals and firefighters personnel entered tonight in the hills of the sector to try to approach the place where the aircraft would be presumed.
