International News Safety Institute

02 September 2011

Rodrigo Cabezon

Incident

Felipe Camiroaga, Roberto Bruce, Sylvia Slier, Carolina Gatica and Rodrigo Cabezon

Cause of death

Air accident

Details

Five officials from Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) died in an accident involving a Chilean Air Force plane in the Juan Fernández archipelago, approximately 420 miles from Santiago.

According to the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, the host of the morning show “Buenos días a todos,” Felipe Camiroaga; reporter Roberto Bruce; journalist Sylvia Slier; assistant producer Carolina Gatica and cameraman Rodrigo Cabezón were all on their way to the archipelago to film a report on the reconstruction of the places most devastated by the 27 Feb. 2010, earthquake and tsunami.

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