Nine dead in Peru plane crash: police NINE people have been killed after a small plane carrying mining company personnel crashed in northwestern Peru, a regional police chief says. "Seven passengers and two crew members died in the accident, which was due to bad weather and their getting hung up in a high-tension cable," said Colonel Roger Torres Mendoza, the police chief of La Libertad region, on Wednesday. The plane's wreckage was located in a ravine alongside a highway in the northwestern region. The passengers were workers for a Peruvian mining company, Marsa, which owns a gold mine in the region.