No survivors in Venezuelan plane crash: official (Reuters)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Fri, 02/22/2008 - 8:15am

A Venezuelan passenger plane with 46 people aboard went missing and likely crashed in a remote mountain region soon after taking off from an Andean city just before dusk on Thursday, authorities said.<br /><br />Mountain villagers reported hearing a huge noise they thought could be a crash after the twin-engine plane flew out of the high-altitude city of Merida headed for the capital Caracas roughly 300 miles away, Civil Defense official Gerardo Rojas said.<br /><br />REUTERS/GraphicsReuters - A plane crashed in the Venezuelan Andes just after takeoff and all 46 people on board were killed, authorities said on Friday.



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