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At Least 4 Reported Dead in Venezuela Plane Crash

   VOA News 13 September 2010

   Officials  in Venezuela say at least four people have been killed in a
   plane crash in the eastern part of the country.
   Local  officials  say  there are at least 21 survivors in the crash of
   the  ATR-42  owned  by  state-run  airline  Conviasa.   The plane was
   carrying  about  50  people  and  was  traveling between the island of
   Margarita  and  the industrial city of Puerto Ordaz when it went down,
   crashing on the property of the state-run Sidor steel mill near Ciudad
   Guayana.
   The  local  governor,  Francisco Rangel Gomez, says the pilot had sent
   out a distress call, but the cause of the crash is not clear.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.

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