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Airliner with 46 aboard crashes in Venezuela

AFP, Caracas
A Venezuelan airliner that went missing with 46 people on board apparently crashed in the Venezuelan Andes, a regional civil defence official told AFP. citing witnesses in the area.
Noel Marquez, head of the Civil Defence for Merida, 500km southwest of Caracas, said local people in the Andean region of Coyado del Condor reported seeing the aircraft godown.
Civil Defence Director General
Antonio Rivero confirmed to AFP that the Santa Barbara Airlines flight, reported missing at 5:45 pm (2245 GMT) Thursday after departing from Merida for Caracas' Simon Bolivar airport, was carrying 43 passengers and three crew.
"A telephone caH was received from some of the local people. Right now rescue teams are going to the area to confirm the information." Marquez said.
He added that the plane, a French-ltalian-inade twin-engine
turbo-prop ATR42, was reported to have crashed at a point some 4,750 meters (15,600 feet) above sea level, near the La Pernada lake.
Marquez said the aircraft had not sent any emergency signals during its flight.
But alarms went out immediately after the aircraft failed to report to flight controllers monitoring the route, Marquez said.
"Immediately a search and rescue operation was launched. Early tomorrow (Friday) two M17 rescue helicopters will be deployed," he added.
Rivero said about 100 rescuers were already involved in the search for the aircraft.
The first rescue team left Thursday night for the village of Mucuchies, one hour from Merida, and had not yet arrived at the accidentsite.
It could take the team more than three hours to reach the site, Marquez said by telephone, because of the steep terrain.
He added that temperatures in the area were close to freezing
Santa Barbara Airlines president Jorge Alvaraez said he had no concrete information about the aircraft.
"At this moment we do not have any solid or verified information on what has happened," Alvarez said on television.
He said the plane was built in the 1980s and had been maintained with oversight from civil aviation authorities.
The company, founded in Maraciaboin 1995, has no record of accidents.
It senes both domestic and international routes, flying to Madrid, Miami. Aruba and Tenerife.