Thirteen people died after a flight carrying European tourists to see Peru’s Nazca Lines crashed outside the city of Nazca on Saturday. The city’s municipal government said a plane from the airline Aerodiana, which has offered flights to view the iconic geoglyphs for the last 14 years, took off from the nearby city of Ica. The Peruvian government said that the plane’s crew had reported a mechanical failure before it lost radio contact, according to CNN. Among those killed in the crash were seven Italian citizens between the ages of 18 and 54, two Germans aged 77 and 78, and two 52-year-old Spaniards, according to Peru’s Transportation Ministry. The agency said in an official report that the plane’s pilot, Américo Salazar, and co-pilot, Irenka Guanilo del Carpio, were also killed. The ministry ordered Aerodiana to suspend all flights “until investigations are completed to verify the company’s compliance with the applicable aviation regulations, procedures and operating requirements,” it said in a statement on Sunday. Peru’s Indigenous inhabitants etched the geoglyphs into the desert hundreds of years ago to create the famed Nazca Lines. The lines, which form images of animals, can only be fully observed from the sky or viewing towers.
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