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No Survivors in Venezuela Crash

Wreckage of 46-passenger plane found

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Feb 22, 2008 9:47 AM CST
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(Newser) – Search helicopters today found what was left of the Venezuelan passenger plane that crashed yesterday with 46 people aboard. No survivors were found in the wreckage, which was nestled among the Andes mountains at an altitude of 13,000 feet, the AP reports. The plane crashed into the mountain head-first, said one Venezuelan general in the civil aeronautical institute.

“By the type of impact we presume that there are no survivors,” said the general. Local residents report hearing “a great crash,” as the plane struck. Before the news broke, families had gathered at the airport, with many crying and embracing each other in an emotional scene. The flight was supposed to last a scant hour and 45 minutes.

Relatives of passengers on board a commercial flight, flying from the southern Venezuela city of Merida to Caracas reported missing, gesture as they arrive at the the desk of Venezuelan Santa Barbara airlines at the Simon Bolivar airport, in Maiquetia, near Caracas, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008. The plane with 46...
Relatives of passengers on board a commercial flight, flying from the southern Venezuela city of Merida to Caracas reported missing, gesture as they arrive at the the desk of Venezuelan Santa Barbara...   (Associated Press)
Jorge Alvarez, President of Santa Barbara airlines, speaks with the media at the Simon Bolivar airport in Maiquetia, near Caracas, Thursday, Feb 21. 2008. A Santa Barbara airlines plane with 46 people on board was reported missing Thursday over the mountains of western Venezuela, officials said.AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Jorge Alvarez, President of Santa Barbara airlines, speaks with the media at the Simon Bolivar airport in Maiquetia, near Caracas, Thursday, Feb 21. 2008. A Santa Barbara airlines plane with 46 people...   (Associated Press)
Relatives of passengers on board a commercial flight, reported missing while flying from the southern Venezuela town of Merida to Caracas, react as they wait for news at the the desk of Venezuelan Santa Barbara airlines at the Simon Bolivar airport in Maiquetia, near Caracas, Thursday Feb. 21, 2008. The...
Relatives of passengers on board a commercial flight, reported missing while flying from the southern Venezuela town of Merida to Caracas, react as they wait for news at the the desk of Venezuelan Santa...   (Associated Press)
Map locates Caracas and Merida, Venezuela.
Map locates Caracas and Merida, Venezuela.   (Associated Press)
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