On Feb. 28, three people died and three others were injured after a small aircraft crashed in southern Chile, a day after another one crashed in a sports field killing 11 people in Chile's capital of Santiago.

The aircraft crashed in the Rilinahue sector, near Ranco Lake, some 950kms south of Santiago.

"Something apparently exploded inside the aircraft and that made it crash," the Mayor of the southern Lago Ranco locality Santiago Rosas told journalists.

The Piper Azteca PA-34 aircraft crashed close to where it started its flight, the General Aeronautic Department said.

On Feb. 27, a Cessna airplane with six people onboard crashed in a sports center where dozens of women and children were doing exercise in eastern Santiago.

On Feb. 28, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet ordered an investigation on Tobolaba airport's security, located some meters away from where the crash took place.