A small plane carrying tourists has crashed in Peru, killing all 13 people on board, according to local news reports and Peruvian officials.<\/p>\n
The aircraft had been flying over Nazca Lines \u200barchaeological site when it went down on Saturday. Eleven passengers and two pilots were on board.<\/p>\n
The cause of the crash and the identity of the passengers is not yet clear.<\/p>\n
Nazca Lines is a popular tourist attraction and UNESCO World Heritage site in southern Peru that features ancient drawings in desert sand.<\/p>\n
“Given the severity of the accident, there are no survivors. We have recovered four bodies so far,” Police Major Jorge Andrade said, according to AFP.<\/p>\n
The crash happened around 13:00 local time (19:00 BST) in the Pueblo Viejo region after the plane departed from an airport in Pisco, Peru.<\/p>\n
In a statement in Spanish posted online by the Municipalidad Provincial de Nasca, officials expressed “deep sorrow” for the accident and extended “heartfelt condolences to the families of the deceased”.<\/p>\n
The statement said the plane belonged to local Peruvian airline Aerodiana.<\/p>\n
The BBC has contacted the airline for comment.<\/p>\n
This isn’t the first plane to crash over the famed site in the last few decades.<\/p>\n
In 2022, another small tourist plane crashed during a flight over the Nazca Lines site, killing seven on board.<\/p>\n
And in 2010, a tourist plane went down over the site, killing six people on board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small plane carrying tourists has crashed in Peru, killing all 13 people on board, according to local…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,49237,49236,49234,391,49238,49235],"class_list":["post-152552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-jorge-andrade","tag-nazca-culture","tag-nazca-lines","tag-peru","tag-peruvian-officials","tag-plane-crashed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}