A small plane fell on a house, caused a fire in Chile and six people died

At least six people died this Tuesday afternoon in southern Chile, crush the plane in which they traveled. The impact is against a house in the city of Puerto Montt completely burned.

The governor of the Los Lagos region, Harry Jürgensen, said that the victims of the accident were "the pilot of the plane and his five pbadengers". While the house that caught fire and was destroyed It was uninhabited at that time, no casualties were reported.

The aircraft belonged to the airline company Archipelagos and had taken off from the La Paloma aerodrome in Puerto Montt, destined for Chaitén, two sites in the Los Lagos area.

The Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC) has published on its Twitter account that an aircraft of the institution "goes to the airfield with researchers on board to investigate the causes of the incident ". In addition, they pointed out that the accident occurred shortly after takeoff from the plane.

The Chilean journalist Néstor Aburto told in TN that in total there were "three properties affected" by the fall of the plane. It is as much for the house that it was thrown by the flames as for those who are at its side. One of them partially burned.

"The mistress of the burning house had gone early to get to work. He discovered of accident on your property by a phone call", revealed Aburto, about the woman who was saved from the tragedy.

In addition, the chronicler indicated that the ship "fell down squarely on the show, with the peculiarity that he did not even completely broke the seat of the house. "Several fire brigades moved to the area and managed to control the fire.

Archipelagos offers charter flights to eight destinations in the Los Lagos and Aysén regions, which are typically hired by local fishing companies to transport their employees. Last January, another small plane crashed in the vicinity of Villarrica in southern Chile, leaving two dead and two seriously injured.