page_title: Jacinto Rodríguez Díaz
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Jacinto Rodríguez Díaz / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Accidente en que perdieron la vida Jacinto Rodríguez Díaz y José Luis Balcárcel.
context_page_description: Pilot Colonel Jacinto Rodríguez Díaz was one of the aviation pioneers in Guatemala.
context_section_description: Colonel Rodríguez Díaz died on 28 September 1929, in a tragic accident known as "Dolores Street air crash"', along with lawyer José Luis Balcárcel (member of the Generation of 1920 intellectuals and classmate of future Literature Nobel Prize awardee Miguel Ángel Asturias, among others), the child Carlos Montano Novella and engineer Julio Montano Novella, Guatemalan Consul in New York City. Only Julio Montano survived.
  Rodríguez Díaz's tomb was designed and built by Guatemalan sculptor Rafael Yela Günther and is in the Guatemala City General Cemetery.
caption: 28 September 1929: Rodríguez Díaz died in an air crash.
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