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Tourist plane crashes in Peru, killing 13

By AAP Newswire

Aug 2, 2026

Tourist plane crashes in Peru, killing 13 — A plane taking tourists on an aerial tour of the Nazca lines has crashed, killing 13. -AP

A plane carrying tourists crashed into a field in Peru outside the city of Nazca killing 13 people, local authorities said.

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In a statement on Facebook, 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.