This Dec. 8, 2014 file photograph reveals an aerial view of the condor geoglyph within the Nazca desert, in southern Peru. (AP Picture/Rodrigo Abd, File)
LIMA, PERU --
A light-weight airplane carrying sightseers for a tour of the Nazca traces within the Peruvian desert crashed Friday, killing all seven individuals aboard, together with three Dutch and two Chilean vacationers, authorities mentioned.
Brigadier Juan Tirado, a firefighter with the 82nd Hearth Firm in Nazca, mentioned the airplane went down close to an airfield within the metropolis. The Nazca traces themselves weren't broken.
"There are not any survivors," mentioned Tirado.
Aero Santos, the tour firm that owns the airplane, mentioned the craft carried the 5 vacationers, and a Peruvian pilot and co-pilot.
The Nazca traces are large etchings depicting imaginary figures, creatures and crops that had been scratched on the floor of a coastal desert between 1,500 and a couple of,000 years in the past. They're believed to have had ritual astronomical functions and are acknowledged by UNESCO as a World Heritage Web site.
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