Overview
- A small tour aircraft crashed after departing Pisco on Saturday, killing all 13 people aboard, including 11 foreign tourists and the two pilots.
- Local reports identify the tourists as seven Italians, two Germans and two Spaniards and say initial recovery teams removed four bodies from the wreckage.
- Peruvian authorities and the civil aviation regulator have launched an active investigation and have not yet released a technical cause for the crash.
- Media reporting names Aerodiana as the reported operator of the flight and investigators are looking into recent strong winds and the cancellation of some tours the day before the accident.
- The Nazca Lines are a UNESCO World Heritage site and aerial sightseeing is a common way to view the geoglyphs, a fact that raises immediate questions about safety and oversight for such tours.