Overview
- A small sightseeing aircraft bound for views of the Nazca Lines crashed shortly after takeoff from Pisco, leaving 13 people dead and no survivors.
- Officials said the victims were foreign tourists and two crew members, with the Peru Ministry of Foreign Trade confirming the passengers were not Peruvian.
- Local radio RPP gave a provisional nationality breakdown of seven Italians, two Germans and two Spaniards but authorities have not yet officially confirmed nationalities.
- Police have not released a cause and investigators were at the still-smoking wreckage as social media images showed firefighters and officers working at the site.
- Pisco operates dozens of small tourist flights to the Nazca Lines and past fatal crashes in 2010 and 2022 make this accident likely to prompt closer safety and regulatory scrutiny.