Expreso Aéreo was a small Peruvian regional airline based at Jorge Chávez International Airport.
OB-1443) operating Flight 015 crashed in the airstrip of the remote Amazon jungle town of Bellavista.
Due to a pilot error on approximation, possibly compounded by fatigue and the co-pilot's lack of experience, the plane hit the ground shortly before the runway threshold (practically crash-landing) and broke up in several parts, killing the pilot in the ensuing fire.
The six remaining crew members and the 36 passengers managed to evacuate and survived, although some were injured.
[2][3] On February 25, 1994, an Expreso Aéreo Yakovlev Yak-40 (just recently delivered to the airline) struck Mount Carpish six minutes after leaving Tingo María for Lima, killing all 26 passengers and five crew members.