Brigadier Juan Tirado, a firefighter with the 82nd Fire Company in Nazca, said the plane went down near an airfield in the city. The Nazca lines themselves were not damaged.
According to IAF, 13 out of 14 on-board have died in the incident. IAF Group Captain Varun Singh is the lone survivor with serious injuries.
There were a total of 14 people on board the IAF chopper out of whom 13 of them have died. IAF Group Captain Varun Singh is the lone survivor. PM Modi later in the day chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security to take stock of the situation.
The identities of the people on the plane weren’t immediately released, and there was no initial indication of the circumstances surrounding the crash.
The news of sudden death of the charismatic Latin Grammy winner Marilia Mendonca has come as a shock to everyone. Her fans took to twitter to pay their condolences. Prominent football star Neymar, also paid his tribute to the singer. "Me recuso acreditar, me recuso (I refuse to believe, I refuse)," he tweeted.
The L-410, a Czech-made twin-engine turboprop, crashed near the town of Menzelinsk, about 960 kilometers (600 miles) east of Moscow.
The LaPresse news agency initially quoted firefighters at the scene saying the pilot and all five passengers aboard were killed. But later LaPresse and other media said there were eight people aboard the flight, including a boy.
State police Capt. R.A. Maddy told news outlets that the wreckage was found near a barn in the rural community of Lansing.
The crash of Air India Express's B737-800 aircraft happened on August 7 at the Kozhikode airport in Kerala. The plane coming from Dubai had overshot the runway at Kozhikode airport and later broke into pieces.
The mobile video shows the aircraft flying at low altitude with at least one of the engines on fire
An Afghan military jet crashed Monday afternoon after crossing the border into Uzbekistan.
The crashed plane was heading from the Alexandria Municipal Airport for the Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie.
Police sources in Kathua, who were part of the rescue operation after the helicopter crashed in Basohli area of the district, where the Ranjit Sagar Dam is situated, said the two are still missing.
Russian plane goes missing in Siberia with at least 13 on board
The plane performing aerial reconnaissance helps direct aviation resources responding to a wildfire.
Wreckage was found Tuesday evening on a coastal cliffside and in the sea, and the search and rescue operation was suspended until Wednesday morning after night fell, as the crash site was difficult to access in the dark.
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules was one of two refurbished U.S. Air Force aircraft handed over to the Philippines, Washington’s oldest treaty ally in Asia, as part of military assistance this year.
According to the state Department of Transportation, the crash happened about 2 miles (3 kilometers) off Kalaeloa Airport, Hawaii News Now reported.
One person was killed and five others injured when a small airplane crashed early Monday at a municipal airport in Texas, authorities said.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it is investigating the crash of the Cessna 172S.
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