{"id":23425,"date":"2026-08-02T07:59:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=23425"},"modified":"2026-08-02T07:59:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T07:59:56","slug":"tourist-plane-crash-in-peru-kills-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/08\/02\/tourist-plane-crash-in-peru-kills-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist plane crash in Peru kills 13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: At least 13 people were killed after a sightseeing plane crashed near the city of Nazca in southern Peru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Peruvian police, the small aircraft, which was conducting a tourist flight over the famous Nazca Lines, crashed on Saturday in the Pueblo Viejo area near Nazca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities said the plane took off from the nearby city of Pisco at around 1:00 p.m. local time and lost contact with air traffic control a few minutes later, and crashed about 20 minutes after takeoff, approximately six kilometers from Nazca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials said all 13 people on board were killed, including 11 passengers and two crew members. The passengers included seven Italians, two Germans reported to be traveling as a couple, and two Spanish nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pilot and co-pilot were identified as Americo Salazar Cuellar and Irenka del Carpio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nazca Lines are among Peru\u2019s most important archaeological and tourist attractions and are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: At least 13 people were killed after a sightseeing plane crashed near the city of Nazca in southern Peru. According to Peruvian police, the small aircraft, which was conducting a tourist flight over the famous Nazca Lines, crashed on Saturday in the Pueblo Viejo area near Nazca. Authorities said the plane took off from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23427,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23425\/revisions\/23427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}