Six
people died on Tuesday after a light aircraft crashed into a house in southern
Chile, authorities said.
The
plane plummeted after getting entangled in power lines shortly after take-off
from La Paloma airport in Puerto Montt, a port city 1,000 kilometres (600
miles) to the south of the capital Santiago, said Harry Jurgensen, the governor
of the Los Lagos region.
Local
television pictures showed the house, which caught fire after being hit by the
plane, completely gutted.
The
plane’s tail could be seen on television images lying in the garden of the
destroyed house.
Authorities
did not reveal the identity of the victims but said the pilot was amongst the
dead — two women and four men.
No
one was in the house when the plane hit.
The
aircraft was owned by the “Archipielago” company, which operates commercial
flights in a region that is difficult to access.
-
AFP
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