GUATEMALA CITY, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- Gen. Rudy Ortiz, Guatemala's armed forces chief, died Wednesday when the helicopter he and four other military officials were traveling in crashed.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the helicopter lifted off at 9:25 a.m. local time. At some point, the craft altered its flight path because of bad weather before it crashed near the border with Mexico, "approximately two kilometers (1.2 miles) northeast of the village of El Aguacate."