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Peru: managers Cristina Bianco and Paolo Gianturco and businessman Massimo Angelucci have died

The aeroplane, operated by Aerodiana, was bound for Nazca. Two families from Monza and Seregno were affected.

2 August 2026aggiornato alle 19

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I sette italiani morti nell'incidente aereo in direzione Nazca prima di partire per il Perù. Da sinistra verso destra: la coppia Angelucci, Cristina Bianco, Matteo Gianturco (ragazzo maglia nera), Paolo Gianturco, Lorenzo Angelucci e ultimo a destra Pietro Gianturco, 2 agosto 2026 ANSA ANSA

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What happened in Peru
The video of the plane crash in Peru is fake; it does not match the wreckage

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Paolo Gianturco, aged 59, one of the seven Italian victims of the plane crash in Peru, was a senior partner at Deloitte in the consulting division, specialising in financial services and, in particular, Fintech. “It is an immense tragedy that has shaken our entire professional community and our extended family,” Fabio Pompei, CEO of Deloitte Italia, told Adnkronos. “Paolo Gianturco was a great innovator; he was recognised by everyone as an extraordinary professional, a person brimming with ideas that looked to the future”. “He was one of our leading managers both in Italia and across Europe because he was a professional of exceptional calibre in banking and the financial services sector,” he concluded, paying tribute to Gianturco . “His passing has left us stunned and has deeply affected everyone who was fortunate enough to know Paolo and share a part of their lives with him.”

Gianturco’s wife was 57 years old Cristina Bianco. Founder and CEO of Aegis, she was a senior executive at Andersen Consulting and had extensive experience in executive search and organisational strategy, particularly in the financial services and asset management sectors.

Their sons Matteo, 24, and Pietro, 18, also lost their lives in the accident; all four were residents of Monza.

The other family involved is from Seregno: they are Elena Sala, aged 58, the entrepreneur Massimo Angelucci, also aged 58, and their son Lorenzo Angelucci, aged 24. The mayor of Seregno expresses his condolences: “This morning, like so many others, I woke up to read about the tragedy of the plane crash in Peru. Just two hours later, I learnt that one of the families was from Seregno”. The mayor of Seregno (Monza Brianza), Alberto Rossi, wrote this on Facebook regarding the victims of the plane crash in Peru. “I learnt something about him from one of my secondary school teachers, who had him as a pupil.”

What happened

Seven Italian tourists are therefore among the 13 victims of the horrific crash of a small tourist plane that crashed in southern Peru. According to local press reports, the aircraft had taken off just a few minutes earlier from Pisco’s Maria Reiche Airport, bound for the famous archaeological site of Nazca, with several European tourists on board, when it lost contact with air traffic control.

The accident is believed to have taken place shortly before 1.00 pm local time on Saturday, which was 8.00 pm in Italia. At present, there is no certainty as to the causes of the disaster, but the theory is gaining ground that the crash was caused by bad weather: in recent hours, strong winds have swept across the region, where violent gusts have caused trees to fall, damage to infrastructure, road accidents and the temporary suspension of air operations in several provinces.

The aeroplane, operated by Aerodiana, was en route to Nazca to carry out a sightseeing flight over the famous Lines at this renowned tourist site, where more than 13,000 lines etched into the ground form 800 designs, including stylised outlines of animals common to the area, ranging from whales, to the parrot, the lizard measuring over 180 metres in length, the hummingbird, the condor and the enormous spider measuring around 45 metres in length.

In fact, also on board the aircraft were two German tourists, Andreas Hofmann (78) and Gertrud Maria Hofmann (77), two Spanish nationals, Amfredo Aviles Muñoyerro (52) and Ana Isabel Sanchez Muñoz (52), and two Peruvians, Americo Salazar and Irenka del Carpio, one a pilot and the other a co-pilot.

Video of the plane crash in Peru is fake; it does not match the wreckage

The video relating to the plane crash in Peru is believed to be a hoax. The Peruvian authorities conducting the investigation have informed the National Flight Safety Agency (ANSV) that “the video circulating widely on social media does not appear to be consistent with the evidence found at the crash site”. In essence, the images “do not appear to be consistent with the condition of the aircraft wreckage”. This information was communicated by the authorities in Lima to the Agency’s expert appointed to oversee the investigation.