Peru Air Force Mi-17 Crash Kills 15 on Relief Flight

Overview

• The Air Force located the wreckage after hours of searching and confirmed four crew members and 11 passengers were dead.
• The crew was identified as Major Sergio Paucar Centurión, Ensign Luis Huertas Cárcamo, and two noncommissioned officers, Kamila Anchapuri Jove and Leiner Aguirre Huamán.
• Passenger fatalities included FAP Colonel Javier Nole Gonzales and civilians, among them six adolescents aged 14 to 17 and a 3-year-old child.
• The Mi-17 departed around 4:30 p.m. Sunday and was also slated to support a cadet parachute-training course.
• The service activated the national search-and-rescue system and says it has contacted victims’ families to provide support and priority updates.