Plane missing in Peruvian jungle

AIR traffic controllers last night lost contact with a Tans Peru plane carrying 42 passengers plus four crew as it approached a small mountain airport in a northern Peruvian jungle.

“The Fokker F-28 plane was declared in emergency at 8:43am (EST) near the Chachapoyas airport and...from that point on, we lost contact with the plane and have not had more news,” Jorge Belevan, head of the state airline’s public relations, told RPP radio.

A community telephone operator in Luya, near Chachapoyas, told RPP radio medical officials were heading to an area called Lonya Chico. “It appears there are people wounded,” she said.