00:00The Laguna del Sauce is a private plane parking lot, not only in Argentina, but all over the world.
00:07What does Gustavo, Diego, Nahuel, Carlos and Luciano do?
00:10Well, it's very sad, very sad and shocked.
00:14The plane arrived in the morning at the Laguna airport carrying six people.
00:19I want to tell you that up to what we have, according to what has emerged,
00:25not by official information, because surely this is within the Secretariat of Customs,
00:30there is a protocol that the airport authority does
00:33of all the last trips that this plane has made between Uruguay and the times that it has entered our country.
00:40I want to tell you that up to what we have so far,
00:44the behavior of the plane has been within the normal parameters.
00:50No inconvenience, no problem of the plane has been reported so far,
00:57with which everything suggests that the inconvenience, the problem,
01:03could have been at the time of arrival in Argentina,
01:07at the time that this aircraft landed there,
01:12with this tragic, tragic end with the death of two people.
01:17Up to here they are all very touched at the airport,
01:20because they personally knew a family.
01:23We are a very small family,
01:25we all know each other, those of us who are in the flight business,
01:29and we are really very touched, dear Diego.
01:32Yes, yes, we were just talking to Carlos Lupiáñez,
01:34another pilot who usually flies at the San Fernando airport,
01:39with other private, private aircraft,
01:43and he knew both the pilot and the co-pilot, it must be said,
01:46but the identities of neither of them have yet been transferred.
01:50And not only that, those are the two confirmed deaths.
01:54It remains to be seen if there was any vehicle
01:57that occasionally passed through that street that we are seeing in images.
02:03A priori, there is an image, the one on the top left,
02:06that there is a charred vehicle in the middle of the street,
02:09and also to know if there were people inside the homes.
02:13This is the priority of the rescue teams and firefighters.
02:17We repeat, equipment from different points of the urban cone,
02:20even from the city of Buenos Aires,
02:21which are being transferred to control the flames.
02:24It is a short route, the fuel tank reaches Lleino,
02:29and in any case, we know that the planes load a lot of fuel,
02:35and that is what happens, right?
02:36After the impact, these fires are caused,
02:40because fuel is spilled and it becomes very difficult to control the flames.
02:45Priority to control the flames,
02:47and then logically see if there were more victims.
02:51Did you have any kind of contact, Gustavo, with the Brito family,
02:55that we know, well, goes every summer, right?
02:59To the area of La Barra, to his historic house there.
03:04Yes, but I prefer not to make any comment.
03:07They are deeply touched by this, by a,
03:12that is, someone has come here to the family in Punta del Este.
03:16They asked me not to give any details,
03:18they are touched because they knew the pilots perfectly,
03:22I repeat, they are considered as families,
03:26there are very few private pilots who travel to this type of places,
03:31they are families who usually travel many times a year,
03:34and that one deposits in them the social life of the little ones, of the adults.
03:41Just tell me that one of the people linked to the family,
03:47told me that they were very, very touched,
03:49because a while ago they had brought six people here to Punta del Este.
03:56This is a practically new plane,
03:59according to what they told me, it is a modern plane,
04:02a plane that is below the best standards in terms of quality and expertise,
04:11but that now, at this moment, surely all the activity that this aircraft has had here at the Laguna airport,
04:19surely it has been requested,
04:22surely it has been requested and extorted through the communications,
04:27the requests that are made by the airport authorities,
04:29and above all, by the authority that is in charge there at the airport.
04:33Very touched, they told me that they were in the family,
04:36and that they deeply regretted everything that had happened.
04:39You were just saying, four passengers registered,
04:44because the information we have so far, the officer,
04:46is the mother of Jorge Brito, the president of River.
04:52Yes, there are four passengers, I mean, four passengers plus the two,
04:56the plane had arrived with six people at the Laguna airport at one o'clock in the morning,
05:01a roll call before returning to Buenos Aires.
05:05Tell you that many times these planes that belong to someone in particular,
05:11even if it is mine, are made available through what are called air taxis,
05:16where many people travel.
05:18You and I have traveled on some occasion,
05:20for some invitation or for some work that we have done,
05:24and they also belong to the businessmen,
05:27and during the time that he did not use it,
05:29sometimes he makes it available so that it can be used as a taxi vehicle.
05:35In this case, we are talking about a tragedy that affects the whole family,
05:42let's say, from here at the airport.
05:44We are seeing very, very sad faces.
05:47They don't want to give me too much information.
05:49I think I'll wait a while, and surely some of the people who are in charge
05:53will give you the primary information.
05:55We already have the confirmation of everything that has happened,
05:58and they deeply regret what has happened,
06:03because they are planes that are very dangerous.
06:06Yes, yes, yes.
06:07I want to confirm, it is Marcela Caraballo,
06:09the mother of Jorge Ebrito, the president of ARRIBA, the president of the Macro Bank,
06:15and that fateful, impossible not to remember,
06:18that fateful accident in a helicopter, in Salta,
06:22when one of the most powerful men in Argentina,
06:26then president of the Macro Bank, Jorge Ebrito, loses his life.
06:30Well, in this case, the tragedy hits the family again,
06:33because two of his most trusted men,
06:36this pilot and co-pilot of his private plane,
06:38lose their lives in this accident.
06:40There is a lot of uncertainty about whether there were more victims.
06:44Look at the image on the bottom right.
06:46I can't tell if it's a taxi,
06:50the one you see in the images,
06:52the vehicle is absolutely burnt in the middle of the street.
06:56And this controversy, which does not open,
06:59because it has been open for a long time,
07:03regarding the fact that there are houses so close to an airport,
07:07Carlos Lupiáñez, if we can reconnect it, it would be interesting.
07:11The pilot has also been the pilot of the San Fernando airport,
07:16remembering several accidents,
07:18one traced to this one,
07:20a plane that gets lost in the headland number 5,
07:25and ends up generating a very similar accident to the one we are seeing.
07:30What we have to expect, Diego,
07:32is that images will start to appear,
07:34probably from the neighbors,
07:36let's be aware of that.
07:38And what must be discarded quickly,
07:41which is where the production is moving at this moment,
07:46is to see people from the houses,
07:50if there are injured.
07:52I understand that two A24 mobile phones have already left the place
07:57to cover this event.
07:59Yes, at any time we will have information
08:02in the place of the events, as always.
08:05But the story, don't you have the video,
08:07to put it again, with the ambient sound,
08:11this image, the despair,
08:14the desperation of the neighbors.
08:17Alert, and we'll see it.
08:28These are the images, a minute after the impact, listen.
08:33Come on, Sari, of course.
08:34Get out of the houses, screams Lamper.
08:36Desperate.
08:38At the beginning of the video.
08:40Listen.
08:45Of course.
08:46Get out of the houses.
08:47We can see it, we can take out the graph,
08:49a second to see the full image.
08:54There it is, perfect.
08:57I want to see the car, because people...
09:00Look.
09:04It's a...
09:05It looks like a Fiat 100.
09:07Let's see.
09:09It looks like a Fiat 100.
09:10A Fiat 100.
09:11I don't know.
09:13No, that's not a Fiat 100.
09:15No?
09:16No.
09:17That has a lot of...
09:18Civic.
09:19Yes, a Civic, it could be.
09:20I don't know if it's so old, Vani, eh?
09:23No, I don't know if it's so old.
09:25Well, what we see...
09:28They're going to tell us, of course, that's for sure.
09:30If that vehicle was parked,
09:32and as a result of the impact,
09:34ends in the middle of the street,
09:36or if it was circulating,
09:38well, an absolute disaster,
09:40where the plane is hit,
09:42with the tank full of fuel,
09:44and after the impact,
09:46implosion.
09:48And the desperation of the neighbors,
09:49when they leave the houses.
09:50Is there something in these moments of desperation,
09:52of not wanting to leave
09:54your belongings,
09:56houses that they have probably built,
09:58their homes?
09:59I mean, it's a complex situation,
10:01but well, at least,
10:02there the neighbors tried to evacuate,
10:04to self-evacuate, actually,
10:06in the midst of the screams and the desperation, right?
10:08Yes, besides, let's not forget
10:10that that fuel
10:12is spreading,
10:14and you'll see how far
10:16the fire can go.
10:18Is the fire under control, Carlos?
10:20Supposedly, it's under control.
10:22They were explaining to me that,
10:24beyond the firefighters who are working,
10:26this is extinguished with a chemical foam,
10:28because it's the one that makes,
10:30obviously,
10:32it's a fuel.
10:34I'm talking with information
10:36that they are writing to us, right?
10:38It's a fuel
10:40that ignites very quickly,
10:42which is very difficult to extinguish.
10:44You know that naphtha,
10:46or any type of liquid
10:48that belongs to hydrocarbons,
10:50is not extinguished with water.
10:52Well, in this case...
10:54It's called Jet A, or something like that.
10:56It has another name, the fuel.
10:58Yes, of course.
11:00Well, look, it impacts me a lot.
11:02That image is shocking.
11:04The braking system didn't work.
11:08The conjectures are endless.
11:10Yes, of course.
11:12Thousands of conjectures.
11:14The most important thing,
11:16or what the rescuers are doing now,
11:18is to inquire
11:20who were the people
11:22who were on the plane,
11:24if there were people in the houses,
11:26if there was someone
11:28in that car.
11:30As far as they tell me,
11:32I don't know.
11:34But, well, we're talking
11:36about a magnitude accident.
11:38Also, let's say,
11:40the neighbors next door, so close.
11:42Well, I understand.
11:44I was running.
11:46Look, a friend is talking to me,
11:48Dario, who is in the place
11:50and tells me it's a Vento.
11:52The car we see there is a Vento.
11:54Yes, I send you a big hug, Dario.
11:56There it is, a Volkswagen Vento.
11:58It's there.
12:00Right down.
12:02It's the one you see crossing
12:04on the street.
12:06You have to see if it was moving at the time.
12:08A priori, the information that is confirmed
12:10is, first, that on the plane
12:12they only traveled...
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