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I've been scanning the Peruvian internet papers fairly regularly and haven't seen anything about a mayday. Just a single last transmission, "entrando en base". They knew from the beginning the aircraft was about three minutes and nine miles from the airport, although how I'm not quite sure and the papers don't explain. In the event, it was located this morning ten miles from the airport with the help of villagers who had heard it pass low overhead and then heard a loud explosion in the direction of a hill they named.
The papers mentioned rumours of other villagers who said they had seen it pass, in flames. You have to be a bit sceptical of those comments at this stage: remote location, difficult comm links, word-of-mouth. Rumours will abound. Helicopter overflight determined the wreckage is scattered over 400m. Teams on foot had not yet been able to reach the site.
The crew were Peruvian Air Force, captain with 9,700 hrs total and 1,065 on type.
Some statistics were brought out showing that since the new airport opened and Tans began flying in there twice weekly, last year, one third of the flights have been cancelled due to weather.
The Peruvian press has been pretty balanced in their coverage, barring the usual apalling close-ups of family distress.
Just another comment on climate. Chachapoyas is close to the Equator and you'd tend to think of it as hot. News reports the temp in the evening as 2C.