At least 13 dead as tourist plane crashes during flight over Peru’s Nazca Lines
- At least 13 people have died after a plane carrying tourists crashed into a field in Peru, local authorities said.
- Nazca’s municipal government said the plane was taking tourists on a sightseeing flight of the Nazca Lines, a group of extensive geoglyphs scraped into the desert around Nazca hundreds of years ago by Peru’s Indigenous inhabitants.
- The lines form images of animals that can only be fully appreciated from planes or viewing towers.
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- At least 13 people have died after a plane carrying tourists crashed into a field in Peru, local authorities said.
- Nazca’s municipal government said the plane was taking tourists on a sightseeing flight of the Nazca Lines, a group of extensive geoglyphs scraped into the desert around Nazca hundreds of years ago by Peru’s Indigenous inhabitants.
- The lines form images of animals that can only be fully appreciated from planes or viewing towers.
Sources: Guardian