The plane came down In a scrub area during windy, rainy weather and came to rest just past a cluster of several hundred houses in a wealthy neighborhood.
Sergio Galilea, governor of Los Lagos region went public with information earlier but aviation official Francisco Rogel (and others) will be continuing the investigation.
The 10 person capacity plane is a small Beechcraft 99A two engine passenger plane, owned by a company called Aerocord. There were nine individuals on board, including the pilot. All were fatalities.
The eight adults and one child were identified online by Patagonia Times as Gastón Alvarado Alvarado, his two-year-old son Maximiliano Alvarado González, Arsenio Rosales Zúñiga, Marcela Orellana Jara, Roberto Saavedra Araya, Claudio Fernández, Hernán Gallardo Palma, Nelson Clieb and Óscar Aguayo, the pilot. We offer condolences to the families in their time of grief.
The plane took off from La Paloma airstrip for its original destination, the Island of Melinka but it never arrived.
Five kilometres north-west of the airport, the plane fell from the sky. Witnesses on the ground reported seeing flames on the plane’s left wing before it crashed and burst into fire in a barren area (scrubs)
Further investigation is planned by aviation authorities to determine the cause of the crash.
This is the 3rd plane crash in southern Chile in the past few weeks.
On July 1 a Chilean Air Force plane crashed into a mountainside near Cochamó (Region X), killing all three crew members. The Twin Otter aircraft was on an instructional flight in the Los Lagos region when it ran into a set of power lines and careened into the side of a mountain (PT, July 3).
Three weeks earlier, July 9th, a Patagonia Airways flight went missing. Four days later, the downed plane was located. All nine of the plane’s passengers survived. The Cessna 208’s pilot survived the accident but died two days later – before rescuers arrived.
Official Accident description
- Status:Preliminary
- Date:10 JUL 2008
- Time:10:30
- Type:Beechcraft 99A
- Operator:Aerocord
- Registration:CC-CFM
- C/n / msn:U-145
- First flight:1971
- Crew:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
- Passengers:Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
- Total:Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9
- Airplane damage:Destroyed
- Airplane fate:Written off (damaged beyond repair)
- Location:near Puerto Montt (Chile)
- Phase:Initial climb (ICL)
- Nature:Domestic Scheduled Passenger
- Departure airport:Puerto Montt-Marcel Marchant Airport (SCPF), Chile
- Destination airport:Melinka Airport (SCMK), Chile
- Narrative:Crashed and burned shortly after takeoff.
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