Crashed in mountainous area, killing all 14 on board. Took 48 hours approx to find wreckage, partly due to poor weather conditions and overnight temperatures down to -15C. The helicopter was itself built in 1963 and first delivered to the German Army.
Passenger manifest now released : From South Korea: Thois Young Hwan, Kin Today Jun, Sang Bae Wuo, Kin Byungdal, Yoo Bongdar, Jeon Hyo Geon, Hyung Suk Leen and Hee Wook Rim. From Austria: - Bustapson Anderz Benge, Tomas Dusek, Erick Kupper. From Peru: Anto Ruiz. The crew have been named as Alfredo Soberon and Luis Echegoyen
- Date
- June 6, 2012
- Reg
- OB-1840P
- Make
- Sikorsky
- Model
- S58
- MSN
- 581672
- Location
- en route Mazuco to Cusco
- Country
- Peru
- CivilMilitary
- Civil
- Fatal
- 14
- Operator
- Heli-Cusco
- Link 1
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18354836
- Link 2
- http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.andina.com.pe%2FEspanol%2FNoticia.aspx%3Fid%3DY3ZbMZzjF9Q%3D
- Link 3
- http://news.yahoo.com/tourist-helicopter-missing-peru-150320985.html
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