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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]