Seven folks have died after a vacationer aircraft crashed on a visit to view Peru’s well-known Nazca Strains, the transport ministry mentioned.
The Cessna 207 single-engine aircraft got here down shortly after takeoff from the small airport of Maria Reiche in Nazca at round noon on Friday.
Everybody onboard the aircraft, together with 5 vacationers and two crew members was killed.
The vacationers have been two Chileans and three folks from the Netherlands, the civil defence workplace in Nazca mentioned.
Dozens of planes function from the Maria Reiche airfield, flying vacationers – primarily foreigners – over the Nazca Strains, which is a UNESCO World Heritage website.
The Strains are one in every of Peru’s prime vacationer sights and have been etched into the desert some 220 miles south of Lima between 500 BC and 500 AD.
They depict animals, crops, imaginary beings and geometric figures a number of kilometres lengthy.
The Strains are believed to have had a ritual astronomical operate or to have served as a calendar. Most are solely seen from the sky.
The Cessna, which belonged to the Aerosantos tourism firm, crashed because it was starting its aerial tour of the location.
It got here down on the fringe of a highway, radio station RPP mentioned.
The aircraft exploded on influence and burst into flames mentioned Canal N, which revealed video of the smoking stays of the plane.
The transport ministry mentioned it'll examine the reason for the crash.
Brigadier Juan Tirado, a firefighter with the 82nd Hearth Firm in Nazca, mentioned the Nazca Strains themselves weren't broken.
In October 2010, 4 British vacationers and two Peruvian crew members have been killed when an AirNasca plane crashed over the Strains.
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