Tourism chamber calls for audits of tourist planes after Nazca crash

Peru’s national tourism chamber Canatur has proposed technical audits for airplanes that provide tourist services over the famed Nazca lines after a plan crashed earlier this week, state news agency Andina reported. Six people on board the plane were killed. They included four British tourists in addition to the pilot and co-pilot. Canatur called for [...]

Company believes its Nazca plane was hijacked by drug traffickers

The company that owns a $2 million charter plane that went missing on Thursday during a flight over Peru’s famous Nazca lines believe it was robbed by drug traffickers, daily El Comercio reported. “It is 99 percent likely that the disappearance of the plane is a hijacking and behind it [are drug traffickers],” representative Jorge [...]

Charter companies halt fly overs of Nazca lines to protest government-ordered decomission of older planes

Charter plane companies that provide flights over Peru’s famous Nazca lines halted operations on Tuesday to protest a new government initiative to decommission some small planes in response to a spate of fatal accidents and close calls. The strike has affected 350 tourists and is resulting in loses of $70 million per day to Peru’s [...]

Heavy rain damages Peru’s famed Nazca lines

Heavy rains have damaged Peru’s famed Nazca lines, a top tourist attraction and one of the world’s greatest archaeological mysteries, reported daily Peru21 on Tuesday. Precipitation has left a layer of white desert clay and sand atop some of the fingers of a geoglyph known as “the hand.” The damage is minor, “and is reversible,” [...]

More than 30 potentially hazardous “pre-historic planes” used to fly daily over Peru’s Nazca lines

Though tourism has soared in Nazca, operators who fly visitors over the enigmatic Nazca Lines etched into the desert sands are not buying new aircraft to replace aging, frail-looking planes, in spite of a spate of deadly accidents and hair-raising emergency landings. According to daily El Comercio, 90 percent of the 38 aircraft operating from [...]