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No survivors in Peruvian plane crash
LIMA, Peru (CNN) -- A Peruvian air force helicopter crew Saturday reached the crash site of a plane that disappeared from radar just before landing Thursday, confirming there were no survivors among the 46 people aboard, Peruvian authorities said. The search that began Thursday had been dogged by bad weather, but the mission proceeded Saturday despite a light rain. The crew spotted the wreckage in the mountains earlier in the day. The plane, which originated in Lima, crashed in the mountains, and the wreckage was strewn at 11,000 feet (3,300 meters). The crash site is 10 miles from where the Fokker 28 was to have landed at the airport in Chachapoyas, Peruvian authorities said. The town is 400 miles north of Lima, Peru's capital. Relatives and friends of the people who were aboard the plane had been awaiting word of their loved ones at the tiny airport in Chachapoyas and the one in Lima. The plane was three minutes from its scheduled landing when the crew called the control tower at 8:43 a.m. EST, authorities said. At the time, the pilot did not report anything was wrong, said Minister of Interior Gino Costa Santolalla. The twin-engine plane had flown from Lima to the coastal city of Chiclayo, 410 miles northwest of the capital, and then departed on the half-hour scheduled flight to Chachapoyas, TANS spokesman Jorge Belevan said. The commercial airliner was leased from the Peruvian air force. TANS is an acronym for Transportes Aereos Nacionales de Selva. Journalist Claudia Cisneros contributed to this report.
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