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February 22, 2008

Rescuers scour Venezuelan Andes for missing plane (Reuters)

Filed under: Health, News, Technology, sports — Admin @ 4:22 am

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. 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. REUTERS/GraphicsReuters - Working on foot in cold conditions,
search teams scoured the rugged Venezuelan Andes on Friday for
a missing passenger plane thought to have crashed with 46
passengers on board in the high mountain region.


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