Aeroservicio Parragué - ASPAR

Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina

Engaged in a fire fighting mission, Tanker 34 was completing a scoop procedure in Lake Gutierrez when it struck an obstacle floating on water, maybe a tree trunk. The airplane came to rest and sak. A pilot was rescued while the second was killed.

Canadian Vickers PBV-1 Canso (OA-10 Canso)

The crew was engaged in a fire fighting mission under callsign 'Canso 31'. While approaching the fire zone at low height and ready to drop 5,000 liters of water, the airplane struck a pine tree with its left wing. Out of control, it crashed in a garden located in the district of Manquimávida, northeast of Chiguayante. Both pilots were killed instantly while the third occupant was seriously injured. He died while being transferred to the hospital. Crew: Carlos Paris Maldonado, pilot, Rolf Taucher, copilot, Jaime López Morales, observer.