The former Chilean president Sebastian Piñera He tragically died this Tuesday at the age of 74, after the helicopter he was traveling in suffered an accident, presumably due to heavy rain.
Piñera was piloting his helicopter in which he was traveling in the company of three people who managed to escape alive, when the aircraft crashed into the waters of Lake Ranco, located in the Los Ríos region, in the south of the country.
The former president owned a summer house on Lake Ranco, and, according to family members and people around him, he was in the area to have lunch at the house of a friend, businessman José Cox. After 3:00 p.m., he boarded his helicopter, and a few minutes later the accident occurred.
A politician by race, Piñera, the third of the five children of Magdalena Echenique and José Piñera, was born in Santiago de Chile in 1949, into a middle-class family. Engineer and diplomat, participated in the founding of Christian Democracy. Doctor in Economics from Harvard University and one of the most successful investors in Latin America, he was a leading figure in South American politics in the last two decades.
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