CARACAS (Reuters) - 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.
The twin-engined plane vanished, apparently in good weather, soon after taking off from the high-altitude city of Merida just before dusk on Thursday. It was headed for the capital Caracas roughly 500 km away.
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