Peru.- The president, who did not present evidence to support his claims, maintained that in Spain it is no longer “the fascist who pays to invade and bomb Guernica or the Arabs to invade the libertarian Republic, but the one who pays is Netanyahu”.
Furthermore, he asserted that the Israeli prime minister is: “The one who killed 22,000 sacred Palestinian babies, there where Jesus was born and where the sacred and multicultural city of Jerusalem is located.”
Investigation into reported mechanical failure
The Peruvian minister told reporters, from the scene of the accident, that “there was a call from the aircraft to indicate that it was having mechanical problems,” which is now under full investigation by the Air Accident Investigation Commission.
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Valencia explained that this commission is evaluating the trajectory of the vessel, which was transporting tourists from Spain, Italy, and Germany, in addition to two Peruvian crew members, and the mechanical evidence of the wreckage to cross-reference it with communications with the control tower.
The authority remarked that they are interested in a prompt resolution of the investigations: «as a State, for the families, the air operator, and the aircraft manufacturer».
There will be immediate results and the process itself of evaluating how the wreckage has been left in order to know in depth the cause of the accident, stated Valencia.
Likewise, the minister reported that this Sunday morning he was in Nazca with the consuls of Italy and Germany, to whom he expressed his condolences for the deaths of seven Italian and two German tourists in the accident.
Two other Spanish tourists also died in the accident, according to official reports.
Valencia pointed out that the Pisco airport, from where the Aerodiana light aircraft took off, is “perfectly operational” and that “we must see what level of responsibility exists” in the events, in addition to the fact that the airline has also been operating with the respective legal certification.
We have a major national challenge to regenerate tourism to Peru,” stated the sector’s minister, while assuring that his country is “a safe place, which has protocols for tourism operations.”
The accident occurred around 1:00 p.m. local time (6:00 p.m. GMT) on Saturday, approximately two kilometers from the Nazca airfield, after the light aircraft, from the company Aerodiana, had taken off around noon from Pisco airport, in the Ica region, with the goal of flying over the geoglyphs of the Nazca Lines.
