Seven Italian tourists die in Peru plane crash

Seven Italian tourists were among the 13 victims of the horrific crash of a small tourist plane in southern Peru . According to local press reports, the plane had taken off a few minutes earlier from Pisco's Maria Reiche airport, bound for the famous archaeological site of Nazca, carrying several European tourists, when it lost contact with air traffic control.

The names

According to local radio station RPP, which obtained the passenger list, the victims were Elena Sala (58), Matteo Gianturco (24), Lorenzo Angelucci (24), Massimo Angelucci (58), Cristina Maria Bianco (57), Paolo Gianturco (59), and Pietro Gianturco (18). The other victims were Germans Andreas Hofmann (78) and Gertrud Maria Hofmann (77) , Spaniards Alfredo Aviles Muñoyerro (52) and Ana Isabel Sánchez Muñoz (52) , and two Peruvian crew members: Americo Alejandro Salazar Cuellar and co-pilot Irenka Del Carpio Guanilo.

The dynamics

The crash reportedly occurred shortly before 1:00 PM local time on Saturday, or 8:00 PM Italian time. The cause of the disaster is currently unknown, but the possibility is gaining traction that the crash was caused by bad weather : in the last few hours, strong winds have hit the region, where violent gusts have caused trees to fall, damage to infrastructure, road accidents, and the temporary suspension of air operations in several provinces. The plane, owned by Aerodiana, was headed to Nazca for a sightseeing flight over the famous Nazca Lines, a popular tourist site where over 13,000 lines traced on the ground form 800 designs. These include the stylized profiles of animals common to the area, from whales to parrots, from a 180-meter-long lizard to hummingbirds, condors, and a huge 45-meter-long spider.

William Acosta, an inspector with the Peruvian Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC), announced that experts from Lima will soon arrive at the crash site to conduct the necessary investigation. What is certain is that the impact was extremely violent and that there were no survivors. César Martínez Elías, a member of the Nazca fire department, told local media that the plane involved was a Cessna Caravan 201B.

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