Aero Santos Cessna 207 crash
Cessna 206 · Controlled flight into terrain shortly after takeoff; under investigation
From María Reiche Neuman Airport, Nazca, Ica, Peru. to María Reiche Neuman Airport, Nazca, Ica, Peru.
Event
- NTSB case
- GAA22WA091
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Final · CIAA final report
- Event fatalities
- 7 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Cessna 206
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 206
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- OB-2179
- Operator
- Aero Santos
- Onboard fatalities
- 7
- Route
- From María Reiche Neuman Airport, Nazca, Ica, Peru.To María Reiche Neuman Airport, Nazca, Ica, Peru.
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Takeoff
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control in flight
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: Nazca, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Aero Santos Cessna 207 crash was an air disaster that took place on Friday, 4 February 2022 near the María Reiche aerodrome of the city of Nazca in the Ica department, in Peru. The aircraft struck the ground shortly after takeoff, and was on its way to perform a sightseeing flight. There were 7 occupants: two pilots and five foreign tourists of different nationalities. No survivors were found.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The Aviation Accident Investigation Commission (CIAA) will be the entity in charge of inquiring into the causes of the accident, the Ministry of Transport indicated.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del Cessna 207 de Aero Santos” (revision 175232780, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Spanish Wikipedia article: Accidente del Cessna 207 de Aero Santos
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 175232780 · 2026-09-07 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q110817407
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record GAA22WA091
- Event ID
- 20220205104597
- Case number
- GAA22WA091
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- es Wikipedia article "Accidente del Cessna 207 de Aero Santos" (page 10151336, revision 175232780), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case GAA22WA091 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date; matches the Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes de Aviación (CIAA), Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones, Peru final report
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record GAA22WA091
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A Cessna of a Nazca operator carrying five foreign tourists on a sightseeing flight: a commercial tour flight. The article: "was on its way to perform a sightseeing flight"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities; matches the Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes de Aviación (CIAA), Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones, Peru final report
- Ground fatalities
- Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes de Aviación (CIAA), Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones, Peru final report
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (3)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Aero Santos Cessna 207 crash" and NTSB case GAA22WA091, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- Checked against the Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes de Aviación (CIAA), Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones, Peru final report on 2026-09-18. The report states the same date, fatalities, registration, departure, destination and damage. Taken from the report: ground fatalities. Shown unchanged where the report gives another value or wording: operator (shown Aero Santos S.A.; report Aéreo Servicios Santos S.A.). Not checked: place, crash-site coordinates, flight number, aircraft type and type of operation.