Peru, Spanish tourist: ‘I took that flight a week ago; they told us it was the safest’
‘We knew about the famous Paracas winds, and how fierce and almost unpredictable they are’
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As soon as I I found out, I started to feel a whirlwind of emotions because I know it could have happened to me, to me, and with my parents involved”.
This is the account, reported by Infobae, of Antonio López, a Spanish national living in Peru, who just a week ago had been on the same flight as the one involved in the Nazca tragedy, travelling with his father and mother on a sightseeing trip.
Everything was calm at the airport: entry, security checks and boarding all went smoothly, he said, explaining that “we’d been told that these aircraft were the safest, the safest option, they were from 2020–2021. We couldn’t have imagined that anything might go wrong”.
“When you board this small aeroplane, you realise it’s not one of those big commercial airliners. It’s much less well-equipped in terms of facilities, seating and so on, but it’s perfectly functional. There’s nothing to be suspicious about,” he said, whilst pointing out that he had noticed the lack of explanations regarding emergency procedures before take-off.
“They don’t give you any safety instructions, like ‘Hey, in the event of an emergency’. They don’t tell you anything, just ‘have a safe journey, fasten your seatbelts’.”
