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A sightseeing flight operated by Aerodiana crashed near Peru’s Nazca Lines, killing 11 European tourists (from Spain, Italy and Germany) and two crew members. Peru suspended Aerodiana’s operations while investigators review the wreckage, flight path, and reported mechanical problems before radio contact was lost.
A light Cessna Caravan operated by Aerodiana, carrying 11 passengers and two crew, crashed during a Nazca Lines sightseeing flight from Pisco and killed all 13 aboard. Victims include seven Italians, two Germans and two Spaniards. Authorities said there were no survivors and bodies were being recovered as investigators probe the crash; flights over the Nazca Lines had been briefly suspended the previous day due to high winds.
Thirteen people died when a small Aerodiana sightseeing plane crashed near Peru’s Nazca Lines while carrying mostly European tourists; 11 passengers and 2 crew were killed, including seven Italians, two Spaniards and two Germans. The aircraft departed from Pisco, the crash site burned, and investigators are probing with a possible temporary airport suspension under consideration.
A small tourist plane carrying 13 people, including 11 passengers and two pilots, crashed while flying over the Nazca Lines in southern Peru after departing from Pisco; all on board were killed, with Italian tourists among the victims, and the cause is under investigation; the flight was operated by Aerodiana over a UNESCO World Heritage site.
At least 13 people were killed when a tourist plane departing from Ica crashed in a field near Peru's Nazca Lines during a sightseeing flight; investigators are probing the incident, and the aircraft was operated by Aerodiana.
An AI-assisted survey of Peru’s Nazca Desert dramatically accelerates archaeology by identifying 303 new figurative geoglyphs and 42 geometric designs (bringing the total to 683) after screening 47,410 candidate patches and validating 1,309 sites through drone and on-ground checks. Led by Masato Sakai with IBM Research, the findings reveal relief-style figures (humans, decapitated heads, camelids) nearby trails and line-type figures (birds, whales) along formal routes, while suggesting about 1,000 more high-potential sites await verification, marking roughly a sixteen-fold jump in discovery rate and shifting fieldwork toward targeted surveying.
In 2024, AI technology uncovered 303 new geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert, nearly doubling the known figures and providing new insights into this ancient UNESCO World Heritage site, which was created by the Nazca culture between 200 BCE and 600 CE.
Researchers have used artificial intelligence to discover three previously unknown Nazca Lines in Peru, including a pair of legs spanning over 250 feet, a 62-foot-wide fish, and a 56-foot-wide bird. The deep-learning system used to identify these geoglyphs works 21 times faster than a human, revealing these hidden gems from aerial photographs of the desert. The researchers have been searching for Nazca geoglyphs since 2004 and have discovered over 150 new Nazca Lines in recent years.