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The crew of an Aerodiana plane that crashed Saturday in southern Peru, killing 11 tourists and two crew members, reported a mechanical problem in flight before radio contact was lost, Peruvian Foreign Trade and Tourism Minister Rogers Valencia said.
“There was a call from the aircraft indicating that it was experiencing mechanical problems,” Valencia told reporters at the crash site, near the Nazca Lines, a collection of thousand year-old geoglyphs etched into the desert floor.
The designs, which include animals and geometric shapes, are best seen from the air. The flight was carrying tourists on a sightseeing tour of the UNESCO world heritage site.
The ministry said the pilots of the Cessna Grand Caravan C-208, which can carry 12 passengers and two crew, notified the control tower at Nazca airfield of the emergency, after which radio contact was lost.
