Transportation Ministry: Tourist planes older than 30 years will be decommissioned in August

Tourist airplanes more than 30 years old will be decommissioned in August in an attempt to improve safety after a small plane crashed last week near the famous Nazca Lines killing seven people, Transportation and Communications Minister Enrique Cornejo announced Thursday. The policy will be extended to tourist planes older than 20 years in 2011 [...]

Pilot reportedly says passenger’s midflight panick attack led to deadly Nazca Lines plane crash

The pilot and sole survivor in the airplane crash that killed five French tourists this week near the famed Nazca Lines reportedly says that the accident was caused by a deadly chain of events that started when one of his passengers suffered a panick attack midflight. From his hospital bed in the coastal city of [...]

Vice Minister: aviation authorities still investigating cause of Nazca Lines plane crash that killed five French tourists

Authorities were still trying to determine the cause Thursday of the plane crash a day earlier that claimed the lives of five French tourists returning from a flyover of the Nazca lines. “The pilot was qualified and the plane was flying an established route during a corresponding flight time, so there still is no determined [...]

Hundreds of families displaced by flood in Nazca

Hundreds of families were forced from their homes Saturday in Nazca after the Aja River overran its banks, flooding a large swath of the southern coastal city up to the main plaza and damaging some 400 homes. Mayor Daniel Mantilla told Radio Programas that adobe homes were the hardest hit by the turbid waters and [...]