ND/Asobo Bell 407 Helicópteros del Pacífico CC-AHQ.
At around 2:30 p.m., today, Thursday, January 12, a Bell 407 helicopter, registration CC-AQH, belonging to Helicópteros del Pacífico that operated for CONAF, crashed to the ground in the Alhué area in the province of Melipilla.
The pilot and only crew member of the aircraft, identified as Claudio Mora, was rescued and evacuated through an operation of the FACH Air Search and Rescue Service, being transported by a Bell UH-1H helicopter to the Mutual de Seguridad in Santiago .
At the time of the accident, the aircraft was carrying out work to extinguish forest fires in the Alhué area, south-west of Santiago.