Below, the Nazca Lines stretched across Peru’s southern desert, immense figures cut into the earth centuries ago and best understood from the sky. Near Socos, roughly two kilometers from the Nazca aerodrome, the crew told air traffic control that the aircraft was in trouble. Members of the Peruvian Police work at the site where a small plane flying over the Nazca Lines crashed, killing thirteen people, including eleven tourists, in the provincial municipality of Nazca, Peru. Members of the Nazca Fire Department work at the site where a small plane flying over the Nazca Lines crashed, killing thirteen people, including eleven tourists, this Saturday in the provincial municipality of Nazca, Peru. The Nazca Lines endured nearby, as they have through centuries of conquest, neglect, and rediscovery.