A TANS Peru airliner carrying 98 people crashed on August 23, 2005 in Pucallpa while making an emergency landing on a jungle highway, killing 31 people.

LIMA, Peru, Aug. 23 -- A Peruvian airliner carrying 100 people crashed Tuesday near a jungle town while attempting an emergency landing in a storm, killing at least 37 people.

In January 2003, a TANS twin engine Fokker 28 turbojet, plowed into a 11,550-foot high mountain in Peru's northern jungle, killing all 42 passengers, including eight children, and four crew ...

LIMA, Peru – A Peruvian airliner carrying 100 people crashed Tuesday near a jungle town while attempting an emergency landing in a storm, killing at least 37 people. The pilot tried to land in a ...

LIMA, Peru — A Peruvian airliner carrying 100 people crashed Tuesday near a jungle town while attempting an emergency landing, killing at least 37 people and injuring about 40, officials ...

LIMA, Peru — A Peruvian airliner carrying 100 people crashed Tuesday while attempting an emergency landing near a jungle town, killing at least 41 people, officials said. The Boeing 737 went ...

Peru jet crashes in jungle, at least 70 dead (AFP) Updated: 2005-08-24 08:39 A Peruvian Boeing 737-200 went down in a storm near the Amazon jungle city of Pucallpa, killing at least 70 of the 100 ...

A Tans Airlines Boeing 737-200 on approach for landing at Peru's Pucallpa Airport crashed into the surrounding jungle on Tuesday morning, with unconfirmed reports putting the number of fatalities ...

Ms Thomas was on a TANS Peru Boeing 737-200 that made a crash landing in remote Peruvian jungle, just kilometres from Pucallpa airport, en route to Iquitos, gateway to the Amazon basin.

Gabriel, 41, his wife, Diana, 43, his brother, Jose, 43 and Jose’s three daughters – Joshelyn, 15, Jacquelyn, 12, and Jharlin, 10 – left Monday for Pucallpa, an Amazon town 490 miles ...

Peru's Institute of Geophysics registered the quake's magnitude at 7, but an official at the institute said that, because of its depth, it only felt like a 5-magnitude quake to Pucallpa's residents.

The Colorado-based USGS said the quake was centred just north of the jungle city of Pucallpa and struck at 12.46pm local time. It occurred 90 miles (145km) underground.