LIMA: 5 vacationers and two crew died Friday when their airplane crashed on a time out to gaze Peru’s favorite Nazca strains, the transport ministry acknowledged.
The Cessna 207 single-engine airplane belonging to the Aerosantos tourism company got here down quickly after takeoff from the petite airport of Maria Reiche in Nazca around midday, it acknowledged in an announcement.
There had been no survivors amongst the seven on board, which a diplomatic source educated AFP integrated two Chilean vacationers.
Dozens of planes scheme from the Maria Reiche airfield, flying vacationers — basically foreigners — over the Nazca strains, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The strains had been etched into the barren suppose floor some 220 miles (350 kilometers) south of Lima between 500 BC and 500 AD, in line with UNESCO, and depict animals, plant life, imaginary beings and geometric figures several kilometers long.
They are believed to have had ritual vast scheme or to have served as a calendar. Most are handiest visible from the sky.
In October 2010, four British vacationers and two Peruvian crew individuals had been killed when an AirNasca airplane crashed over the strains.
