3dGameMan
08-16-2005, 06:22 AM
Plane crashes in Venezuela: ~source (http://cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/08/16/Venezuela_plane_crash_20050816.html)
CBC News
A plane with 152 passengers aboard crashed near Venezuela's border with Colombia Tuesday after suffering engine trouble. It was unclear whether anyone survived.
The West Caribbean Airways plane was headed from Panama to Martinique when its pilot reported engine trouble to the Caracas airport, said Francisco Paz, president of the National Aviation Institute.
Airport authorities lost radio contact with the plane later in the area of Machiques, in the western state of Zulia, he said.
Interior Minister Jesse Chacon told local television that authorities were searching for survivors from the aircraft that was en route from Panama to Martinique in the Caribbean.
It was not clear which airline the aircraft belonged to.
CBC News
A plane with 152 passengers aboard crashed near Venezuela's border with Colombia Tuesday after suffering engine trouble. It was unclear whether anyone survived.
The West Caribbean Airways plane was headed from Panama to Martinique when its pilot reported engine trouble to the Caracas airport, said Francisco Paz, president of the National Aviation Institute.
Airport authorities lost radio contact with the plane later in the area of Machiques, in the western state of Zulia, he said.
Interior Minister Jesse Chacon told local television that authorities were searching for survivors from the aircraft that was en route from Panama to Martinique in the Caribbean.
It was not clear which airline the aircraft belonged to.